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will teach, 3.5.8 all things that you have not now learned because you cannot bear them; but when he comes, I mean the Paraclete, he will complete the teaching, and will bring to your remembrance the things now spoken by me. and again he adds, “But when the Paraclete comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.” Through all these things he clearly shows that the one sent by him and the one who is to 3.5.9 bear witness about him is another than himself. But he develops the argument still further also through what he adds: “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” In saying that he would go away, in these words he signified both his own passion 3.5.10 and his subsequent ascent to the Father. Who then is so foolish as, after so many statements, to say that the one who said these things and the one about whom he said them are one and the same, hearing him clearly defining that he speaks the truth, and showing what the truth is, that 3.5.11 unless he himself went away, the Holy Spirit would never come. But if at one time he states that the Father will send the Holy Spirit, and at another time that he himself will, he is certainly not teaching contrary things; for whatever he “sees the Father doing,” “these things the Son also does in like manner” and “as he hears, he judges.” Therefore, by the judgment of the Father, whenever the Father wills, then the Son and † through him the Savior sends to his disciples the Spirit of truth, the Paraclete, to comfort them and console them for what they suffered while preaching the gospel at the hands of 3.5.12 their persecutors; not only to comfort them, but also to teach them all the truth of the new covenant, which they could not bear to be taught by the Savior when he spoke these things to them, because they were still enslaved to the Jewish 3.5.13 way of life. And these things he fulfilled in deed after his resurrection from the dead. After which, having said to Mary, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father,” after these things, having indeed ascended to the Father, he appeared to the disciples, the Holy Spirit having been sent and being with him, ready and present for the ministry to which he has been appointed, 3.5.14 when he also permits them to touch him. For then “he breathed on them” and then he gave them a certain portion of the gift of the Holy Spirit, that which brings about the forgiveness of sins; for “there are varieties of gifts,” of which he bestowed on them in part then while being with them and present to them, but after this he filled them with a greater and more perfect power. Concerning which, in the Acts of the Apostles, he said to them, “But you will receive power from on high when the Holy Spirit has come upon you”; when he also promised that they would be baptized in the Holy Spirit, which very thing was fulfilled after his ascension, on the day of Pentecost when the 3.5.15 Holy Spirit was sent to them in accordance with his own words. But since the things related to this topic require more elaboration and clarification, it is not now the time to go through them with the precision of an examination, since this is not our present purpose, but it was necessary to show that the Paraclete Spirit is other than the Son, which indeed has been demonstrated in various ways through what the Savior himself taught, both among other things and in what he said: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now; but when he comes, the Spirit 3.5.16 of truth, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” In which again he promises that his disciples will learn from the Holy Spirit those things which he himself did not teach, speaking as about another in the phrases “when he comes” and “for he will not speak on his own authority” and “he will glorify me” and “for he will take what is mine”; for to suppose that the Savior himself is saying all these things about himself is a terrible and 3.5.17 incurable foolishness. But indeed, through these things the Savior himself clearly the

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διδάξει, 3.5.8 ὅσα νῦν οὐ μεμαθήκατε διὰ τὸ μὴ χωρεῖν ὑμᾶς· ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνος ἐλθών, λέγω δὲ ὁ παράκλητος, ἀναπληρώσει τὴν διδασκαλίαν, μετὰ τοῦ καὶ τῶν νῦν λεγομένων ὑπ' ἐμοῦ μνήμην ὑμῖν ἐμποιῆσαι. καὶ αὖθις ἐπάγει «ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ ὁ παράκλητος ὃν ἐγὼ πέμψω ὑμῖν παρὰ τοῦ πατρός, τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας ὃ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκπορεύεται, ἐκεῖνος μαρτυρήσει περὶ ἐμοῦ». δι' ὧν ἁπάντων σαφῶς παρίστησιν ἐκεῖνον τὸν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ πεμπόμενον καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα περὶ αὐτοῦ 3.5.9 μαρτυρεῖν ἕτερον εἶναι παρ' ἑαυτόν. ἐπεξεργάζεται δὲ τὸν λόγον ἔτι μᾶλλον καὶ δι' ὧν ἐπιλέγει «ἀλλ' ἐγὼ τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγω ὑμῖν, συμφέρει ὑμῖν ἵνα ἐγὼ ἀπέλθω. ἐὰν γὰρ μὴ ἀπέλθω, ὁ παράκλητος οὐκ ἔρχεται πρὸς ὑμᾶς· ἐὰν δὲ πορευθῶ, πέμψω αὐτὸν πρὸς ὑμᾶς». ἀπελθεῖν δὲ ἑαυτὸν λέγων ἐν τούτοις τε τὸ πάθος ἑαυτοῦ ἐσήμαινεν 3.5.10 καὶ τὴν μετὰ τοῦτο πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ἄνοδον. τίς οὖν οὕτως ἠλίθιος ὡς μετὰ τοσαύτας φωνὰς ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι φάναι τὸν ταῦτα λέγοντα καὶ τὸν περὶ οὗ ταῦτ' ἔλεγεν, ἀκούων αὐτοῦ σαφῶς διοριζομένου τὴν ἀλήθειαν φάσκειν, καὶ τίς ἡ ἀλήθεια παριστῶντος, ὡς 3.5.11 εἰ μὴ ἀπέλθοι αὐτός, μὴ ἄν ποτε ἥξειν τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα. εἰ δὲ ποτὲ μὲν τὸν πατέρα πέμψειν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ποτὲ δὲ ἑαυτὸν διορίζεται, οὐκ ἐναντία δήπουθεν διδάσκει· πάντα γὰρ ὅσα ἐὰν «βλέπῃ τὸν πατέρα ποιοῦντα», «ταῦτα ὁμοίως καὶ ὁ υἱὸς ποιεῖ» καὶ «καθὼς ἀκούει, κρίνει». διὸ τῇ τοῦ πατρὸς κρίσει, ὅτε καὶ βούλεται ὁ πατήρ, τηνικαῦτα ὁ υἱὸς καὶ † δι' αὐτοῦ ὁ σωτὴρ ἀποστέλλει τοῖς αὐτοῦ μαθηταῖς τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ παράκλητον, πρὸς τὸ παρακαλεῖν αὐτοὺς καὶ παραμυθεῖσθαι ἐφ' οἷς κηρύττοντες τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ὑπὸ 3.5.12 τῶν ἐλαυνόντων αὐτοὺς ἔπασχον· οὐ μόνον δὲ πρὸς τὸ παρακαλεῖν αὐτούς, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς τὸ διδάξαι αὐτοὺς πᾶσαν τὴν ἀλήθειαν τῆς καινῆς διαθήκης, ἣν οὐκ ἐχώρουν ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος διδάσκεσθαι, ὁπηνίκα ταῦτα αὐτοῖς ὡμίλει διὰ τὸ ἔτι τῇ Ἰουδαϊκῇ δεδουλῶσθαι 3.5.13 ἀγωγῇ. ταῦτα δὲ ἔργοις ἐπλήρου μετὰ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν αὐτοῦ. μεθ' ἣν εἰπὼν τῇ Μαρίᾳ «μή μου ἅπτου, οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα πρὸς τὸν πατέρα μου», μετὰ ταῦτα ἅτε δὴ ἀνεληλυθὼς πρὸς τὸν πατέρα τοῖς μαθηταῖς ὤφθη, τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἀπεσταλμένου καὶ συνόντος αὐτῷ ἑτοίμου τε παρεστῶτος εἰς ἣν τέτακται διακονίαν, 3.5.14 ὅτε καὶ ἅψασθαι αὐτοῦ ἐπιτρέπει. τότε γὰρ «αὐτοῖς ἐνεφύσησεν» καὶ τότε μέρος τι χαρίσματος τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος αὐτοῖς, τὸ τῆς ἀφέσεως τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ποιητικόν, ἐδίδου· «διαιρέσεις» γὰρ «χαρισμάτων εἰσίν», ὧν ἐκ μέρους μὲν αὐτοῖς ἐδωρεῖτο τότε συνὼν καὶ παρὼν αὐτοῖς, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα μείζονος αὐτοὺς καὶ τελεωτέρας δυνάμεως ἐπλήρου. περὶ ἧς ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσιν τῶν ἀποστόλων πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἔφη «ὑμεῖς δὲ λήψεσθε ἐξ ὕψους δύναμιν ἐπελθόντος τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐφ' ὑμᾶς»· ὅτε καὶ βαπτισθήσεσθαι αὐτοὺς ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ ἐπηγγέλλετο, ὃ δὴ καὶ αὐτὸ ἐπληροῦτο μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν αὐτοῦ, κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς πεντηκοστῆς ἀποσταλέντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ 3.5.15 ἁγίου πνεύματος ταῖς αὐτοῦ φωναῖς ἀκολούθως. πλείονος δὲ ἐξεργασίας καὶ σαφηνείας δεομένων τῶν κατὰ τὸν τόπον οὐ νῦν ἐπεξιέναι καιρὸς τῇ τῆς ἐξετάσεως ἀκριβείᾳ, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ τοῦθ' ἡμῖν πρόκειται, παραστῆσαι δ' ἐχρῆν ἕτερον εἶναι τοῦ υἱοῦ τὸ παράκλητον πνεῦμα, ὃ δὴ καὶ ἀπεδείχθη διαφόρως δι' ὧν αὐτὸς ἐπαίδευσεν ὁ σωτήρ, πρός τε τοῖς ἄλλοις καὶ ἐν οἷς ἔλεγεν «ἔτι πολλὰ ἔχω λέγειν ὑμῖν, ἀλλ' οὐ δύνασθε βαστάζειν ἄρτι· ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος, τὸ πνεῦμα 3.5.16 τῆς ἀληθείας, διηγήσεται ὑμῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν πᾶσαν· οὐ γὰρ ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ λαλήσει, ἀλλ' ὅσα ἀκούσει, καὶ τὰ ἐρχόμενα ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν. ἐκεῖνος ἐμὲ δοξάσει, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἐμοῦ λήψεται καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν». ἐν οἷς πάλιν ἃ μὴ αὐτὸς ἐδίδαξεν ταῦτα μαθήσεσθαι τοὺς αὐτοῦ μαθητὰς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐπαγγέλλεται, ὡς περὶ ἑτέρου λέγων τὸ «ὅταν ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος» καὶ τὸ «οὐ γὰρ ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ λαλήσει» καὶ τὸ «ἐκεῖνος ἐμὲ δοξάσει» καὶ τὸ «ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἐμοῦ λήψεται»· ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα ὑπολαμβάνειν τὸν σωτῆρα αὐτὸν περὶ ἑαυτοῦ λέγειν δεινὴ καὶ 3.5.17 δυσθεράπευτος εὐήθεια. ἀλλὰ γὰρ σαφῶς διὰ τούτων αὐτὸς ὁ σωτὴρ τὸ