3. Again, the Holy Spirit is called, and is, unction and seal. For John writes: ‘And as for you, the unction which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that anyone should teach you, but as his unction, his Spirit teacheth you concerning all things.’ In the prophet Isaiah it is written: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me.’ Paul writes: ‘In whom having also believed, ye were sealed,’ and again, ‘Grieve not the Holy Spirit. . . in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption’. The creatures are anointed and sealed in him. But if the creatures are anointed and sealed in him, the Spirit cannot be a creature. For that which anoints is not like to those which are anointed. Moreover, this unction is a breath of the Son, so that he who has the Spirit says: ‘We are a sweet savour of Christ.’ The seal gives the impress of the Son, so that he who is sealed has the form of Christ; as the Apostle says: ‘My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you.’ But if the Spirit is the sweet savour and form of the Son, it is clear that the Spirit cannot be a creature; for the Son also, ‘being in the form’ of the Father, is not a creature.

Moreover, as he who has seen the Son sees the Father, so he who has the Holy Spirit has the Son, and, having him, is a temple of God. For Paul writes, ‘Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?’ John says: ‘Hereby know we that we abide in God and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.’ But if we have confessed that the Son is not a creature, because he is in the Father and the Father in him, then the Spirit likewise cannot possibly be a creature; for the Son is in him and he is in the Son. Wherefore, he who receives the Spirit is called a temple of God.

Furthermore, it will be well to look at it in the light of the following consideration. If the Son is the Word of God, he is one as the Father is one; for, ‘There is one God, of whom are all things . . . and one Lord Jesus Christ’. Hence both in our speech and in the Scriptures he is called ‘only begotten Son’. But creatures are many and diverse: angels, archangels, cherubim, principalities, powers, and the rest, as we have said. But if the Son is not a creature because he does not belong to the many, but is one as the Father is one: then the Spirit likewise—for we must take our knowledge of the Spirit from the Son—cannot be a creature. For he does not belong to the many but is himself one.

Καὶ πάλιν χρίσμα καὶ σφραγὶς λέγεται καὶ ἔστι τὸ Πνεῦμα· ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ἰωάννης γράφει· «Καὶ ὑμεῖς τὸ χρίσμα ὃ ἐλάβετε παρ' αὐτοῦ μένει ἐν ὑμῖν· καὶ οὐ χρείαν ἔχετε, ἵνα τις διδάσκῃ ὑμᾶς, ἀλλ' ὡς τὸ αὐτοῦ χρίσμα, τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ διδάσκει ὑμᾶς περὶ πάντων·» ἐν δὲ τῷ προφήτῃ Ἡσαΐᾳ γέ γραπται· «Πνεῦμα Κυρίου ἐπ' ἐμὲ, οὗ εἵνεκεν ἔχρισέ με·» καὶ ὁ Παῦλος δὲ γράφει· «Ἐν ᾧ καὶ πιστεύσαντες ἐσφραγίσθητε·» καὶ πάλιν· «Μὴ λυπεῖτε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, ἐν ᾧ ἐσφραγίσθητε εἰς ἡμέραν ἀπολυτρώσεως.» Τὰ δὲ κτίσματα ἐν τούτῳ χρίεται καὶ σφραγίζεται· εἰ δὲ τὰ κτίσματα ἐν τούτῳ χρίεται καὶ σφραγίζεται, οὐκ ἂν εἴη κτίσμα τὸ Πνεῦ μα· οὐ γὰρ ὅμοιον τὸ χρίον τῶν χριομένων. Καὶ γὰρ τὸ χρίσμα τοῦτο πνοή ἐστι τοῦ Υἱοῦ· ὥστε τὸν ἔχοντα τὸ Πνεῦμα λέγειν· «Χριστοῦ εὐωδία ἐσμέν.» Καὶ ἡ σφραγὶς δὲ τὸν Υἱὸν ἐκτυποῖ, ὡς τὸν σφραγιζόμενον ἔχειν τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ μορφὴν, λέ γοντος τοῦ Ἀποστόλου· «Τεκνία μου, οὓς πάλιν ὠδίνω, μέχρις οὗ μορφωθῇ Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν.» Εἰ δὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα εὐωδία καὶ μορφὴ τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἐστιν, εὔδηλον, ὡς οὐκ ἂν εἴη τὸ Πνεῦμα κτίσμα· ἐπειδὴ καὶ ὁ Υἱὸς, ἐν μορφῇ τοῦ Πατρὸς ὑπάρχων, οὐκ ἔστι κτίσμα. Καὶ γὰρ ὥσπερ ὁ ἑωρακὼς τὸν Υἱὸν ὁρᾷ τὸν Πατέρα, οὕτως ὁ τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἔχων ἔχει τὸν Υἱὸν, καὶ ἔχων αὐτὸν, ναὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι, γράφοντος τοῦ μὲν Παύλου· «Οὐκ οἴδατε, ὅτι ναὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστε, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν·» ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννης φησίν· «Ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν, ὅτι ἐν τῷ Θεῷ μένομεν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος αὐτοῦ δέδωκεν ἡμῖν.» Εἰ δὲ ὁ Υἱὸς ἐν τῷ Πατρὶ ὢν, ἐν ᾧ ἐστι καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ, ὡμολο γήθη μὴ εἶναι κτίσμα, ἀνάγκη πᾶσα μηδὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα εἶναι κτίσμα· ἐν αὐτῷ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ Υἱὸς, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν τῷ Υἱῷ. ∆ιὸ καὶ ὁ τὸ Πνεῦμα λαμβάνων ναὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ χρηματίζει. Πάλιν δὲ κἀκ τούτου συνιδεῖν καλὸν, εἰ ἔστιν ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος, ὡς Πατὴρ εἷς ἐστιν. «Εἷς γὰρ Θεὸς, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα, καὶ εἷς Κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός·» διὸ καὶ μονογενὴς Υἱὸς εἴρηται καὶ γέγραπται· τὰ δὲ κτίσματα πολλὰ καὶ διάφορα, ἄγγελοι, ἀρχάγγελοι, χερουβὶμ, ἀρχαὶ, ἐξουσίαι, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα, ὥσπερ εἴρηται. Εἰ δὲ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι τῶν πολλῶν ὁ Υἱὸς, ἀλλ' εἷς ἐστιν, ὡς Πατὴρ εἷς ἐστι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι κτίσμα, πάντως καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα (χρὴ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ Υἱοῦ λαμβάνειν καὶ τὴν περὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος γνῶσιν) οὐκ ἂν εἴη κτίσμα. Οὐ γὰρ τῶν πολλῶν ἐστιν, ἀλλ' ἕν ἐστι καὶ αὐτό.