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by whom they were created, but "spirit" the personal holy spirit of God, by whom being sanctified they were strengthened. 1.10 For it is the divine name, the all-ruling and surpassing dignity, that is mentioned and glorified with the Father and the Son; the sanctifying and life-giving and bestower of heavenly light; the guardian of each one's perseverance in sameness; that which spoke to prophets and apostles, and strengthened martyrs to resist tyrannical cruelty; that which renews and sets free as lord, and makes us sons of God as a spirit of adoption; that which drives away hordes of demons by its illumination, and shames the adversary; that which opens for us the gates of heaven, and leads to the entrance of salvation, and makes us partakers of the life and hymnody of angels; 1.11 that which becomes for us a path leading to the heavenly God and Father himself; the sovereign and surpassing most serene epiphany; the fruitful and infinite and saving power; the unquantifiable and incomparable and venerable hypostasis; the undefiled and approved and all-holy glory; the divine grace that supplies what is lacking and heals what is weak; the ineffable and eternal goodness; the source of unfailing gifts and the advance of every good mind; the true revelation of things to come and unknown; 1.12 the seal of salvation and the divine anointing, the pledge of eternal good things, by whom every creature, visible and invisible, rational and non-rational, is strengthened; by whom we have divine regeneration and the remission of iniquities and the covering of sins and reconciliation to God; and a crown for the righteous and the receiving of good things; and a heavenly dwelling and unending life and an eternal inheritance of the kingdom of God; 1.13 he who partakes of whose fellowship through regeneration obtains the aforementioned good things and, according to the catholic epistles, is a partaker of the divine nature. For he who has partaken of incorruptible and eternal illumination remains ageless in mind, in youth and gentleness, and is likened to the only one who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light. 1.14 For the sacred seers of the old and new testament know that the Holy Spirit is of the highest single divine substance. At any rate, they testify immediately:

2.ν Concerning the Holy Spirit being of God; and concerning the heretical opposition

2.1 First, that it is the Spirit of God and from God, though not after him, and alone knowing the things of God, and being upon all, they say the following: 2.2 Moses in Genesis from the person of God: "My spirit shall not remain in these men forever, because they are flesh." Haggai likewise from the divine voice: "I am with you, and my spirit stands in your midst;" 2.3 Zechariah likewise: "But hear my words, and receive my statutes, which I command in my spirit to my servants the prophets;" 2.4 Isaiah from the Father to the Son: "My spirit, which is upon you, and the words which I have given into your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth and from the mouth of your seed;" calling his seed the faithful, whom he also called to adoption. 2.5 and again from the Son: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me." That these things have been fulfilled in you in the economy, Matthew said thus: "that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying: '4Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my spirit upon him;'5" 2.6 and again from the Father: "For a spirit shall go forth from me." 2.7 and in Ezekiel the most high Father names our spirit "your" spirit, but the Holy Spirit his own, as proceeding from him by nature: "and I will give you a new heart

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παρ' οὗ ἐκτίσθησαν, «πνεῦμα» δὲ τὸ ἐνυπόστατον ἅγιον πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ, παρ' οὗ ἁγιασθέντες ἐνεδυναμώθησαν. 1.10 αὐτὸ γάρ ἐστιν τὸ θεϊκὸν ὄνομα, τὸ παντοκρατορικὸν καὶ ὑπερέχον ἀξίωμα, τὸ σὺν πατρὶ καὶ υἱῷ μνημονευόμενον καὶ συνδοξαζόμενον· τὸ ἁγιαστικὸν καὶ ζωοποιὸν καὶ φωτὸς οὐρανίου μεταδοτικόν· τὸ φρουρητικὸν ἑκάστων τῆς ἐν ταυτότητι διαμονῆς· τὸ προφήταις καὶ ἀποστόλοις ἐνηχῆσαν, καὶ μάρτυρας ἀντιστῆναι τυραννικῇ ὠμότητι ἐνισχύσαν· τὸ ἀνακαινίζον καὶ ἐλευθεροῦν ὡς κύριος, καὶ υἱοὺς θεοῦ ἡμᾶς ποιοῦν ὡς πνεῦμα υἱοθεσίας· τὸ ἀπελαῦνον τῷ φωτίσματι δαιμόνων στίφη, καὶ τὸν ἀντικείμενον καταισχύνον· τὸ ἀναπετάζον ἡμῖν τὰς οὐρανῶν πύλας, καὶ ἄγον ἐπὶ τὴν εἴσοδον τῆς σωτηρίας, καὶ τῆς ἀγγέλων πολιτείας καὶ ὑμνῳδίας ἐργαζόμενον κοινωνούς· 1.11 τὸ γινόμενον ἡμῖν τρίβος ἀποφέρουσα πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπουράνιον θεὸν καὶ πατέρα· ἡ αὐτεξούσιος καὶ ὑπερβάλλουσα γαληνοτάτη ἐπιφάνεια· ἡ γόνιμος καὶ ἄπειρος καὶ σωστικὴ δύναμις· ἡ ἀμεγέθης καὶ ἀσύγκριτος καὶ σεπτὴ ὑπόστασις· ἡ ἄχραντος καὶ ἔγκριτος καὶ πάναγνος δόξα· ἡ θεία χάρις ἡ τὰ λείποντα ἀναπληροῦσα καὶ τὰ ἀσθενῆ ἰωμένη· ἡ ἄρρητος καὶ ἀίδιος ἀγαθότης· ἡ πηγὴ τῶν ἀνεκλείπτων χαρισμάτων καὶ παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ νοῦ πρόοδος· ἡ μελλόντων καὶ ἀγνώστων ἀληθὴς φανέρωσις· 1.12 ἡ σωτήριος σφραγὶς καὶ τὸ θεῖον χρῖσμα, ὁ ἀρραβὼν τῶν ἀιδίων ἀγαθῶν, παρ' οὗ πᾶσα κτίσις, ὁρατὴ καὶ ἀόρατος, λογικὴ καὶ μὴ λογική, ἐνδυναμοῦται· παρ' οὗ ἡμῖν ἡ θεία ἀναγέννησις καὶ τῶν ἀνομιῶν ἡ ἄφεσις καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡ ἐπικάλυψις καὶ ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν οἰκείωσις· στέφανός τε δικαίοις καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἀπόληψις· οὐράνιόν τε ἐνδιαίτημα καὶ ζωὴ ἀτηλεύτητος καὶ βασιλείας θεοῦ κληρονομία αἰώνιος· 1.13 οὗτινος τῆς κοινωνίας διὰ τῆς παλιγγεννεσίας ὁ μετέχων τυγχάνει τῶν μνημονευθέντων ἀγαθῶν καὶ πρὸς τὰς καθολικὰς ἐπιστολὰς θείας ἐστὶ κοινωνὸς φύσεως. ὁ γὰρ ἀφθάρτου καὶ ἀιδίου φωτίσματος μετειληφὼς ἀγήρως κατὰ τὸ νοητὸν μένει ἐν νεότητι καὶ ἠπιότητι, καὶ ἐξομοιοῦται τῷ μόνῳ ἔχοντι ἀθανασίαν καὶ φῶς οἰκοῦντι ἀπρόσιτον. 1.14 οἱ γὰρ τῆς ἀρχαίας καὶ νέας διαθήκης ἱερομάνται τῆς ἀνωτάτω μιᾶς θείας θύσεως εἶναι τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα ἐπίστανται. αὐτίκα γοῦν μαρτυροῦσιν·

2.ν Περὶ τοῦ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα εἶναι τοῦ θεοῦ· καὶ περὶ αἱρετικῆς ἀντιθέσεως

2.1 Πρῶτον μέν, ὅτι πνεῦμά ἐστι τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ, εἰ καὶ μὴ μετ' αὐτόν, καὶ μόνον εἰδὸς τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ πάντας τυγχάνον, λέγουσι τοιάδε· 2.2 Μωυσὴς μὲν ἐν τῇ γενέσει ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ θεοῦ· «οὐ μὴ καταμείνῃ τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τούτοις εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς σάρκας». Ἀγγαῖος ὁμοίως ἀπὸ θεϊκῆς φωνῆς· «ἐγώ εἰμι μεθ' ὑμῶν, καὶ τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐφέστηκεν ἐν μέσῳ ὑμῶν·» 2.3 Ζαχαρίας ὁμοίως· «πλὴν ἀκούσατε τοὺς λόγους μου, καὶ τὰ νόμιμά μου δέχεσθε, ἃ ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ἐν πνεύματί μου τοῖς δούλοις μου τοῖς προφήταις·» 2.4 Ἠσαίας ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς τὸν υἱόν· «πνεῦμα τὸ ἐμόν, ὅ ἐστιν ἐπὶ σοί, καὶ τὰ ῥήματα, ἃ δέδωκα εἰς τὸ στόμα σου, οὐ μὴ ἐκλείπῃ ἐκ τοῦ στόματός σου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ στόματος τοῦ σπέρματός σου·» σπέρμα λέγων αὐτοῦ τοὺς πιστούς, οὓς καὶ εἰς υἱοθεσίαν ἐκάλεσεν. 2.5 καὶ πάλιν ἀπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ· «πνεῦμα κυρίου ἐπ' ἐμέ.» ἐκπεπεράνθαι σὲ ταῦτα ἐν τῇ οἰκονομίᾳ Ματθαῖος οὕτως εἶπεν· «ὅπως πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Ἠσαίου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος· "4ἰδοὺ ὁ παῖς μου, ὃν ᾑρέτισα, ὁ ἀγαπητός μου, εἰς ὃν εὐ δόκησεν ἡ ψυχή μου· θήσω τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐπ' αὐτόν·"5» 2.6 καὶ πάλιν ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρός· «πνεῦμα γὰρ ἐξ ἐμοῦ ἐξελεύσεται.» 2.7 καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἰεζεκιὴλ ὁ ὕψιστος πατὴρ τὸ μὲν ἡμέτερον πνεῦμα «ὑμῶν» πνεῦμα, τὸ δὲ ἅγιον πνεῦμα ἴδιον ἐξονομάζει, ἅτε ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἐκπορευθὲν κατὰ φύσιν· «καὶ δώσω ὑμῖν καρδίαν καινὴν