But was not the sending of the Word to us also essential, having come from both the Father and the Spirit? But the sending was not generation; for the Son was not begotten from both, nor for our sake, nor after us, even though after us, for our sake, He essentially descended, having been united to our nature hypostatically and having become as we are for our sake, being begotten not only before us, but also before the ages, from the Father alone. And so the Holy Spirit was essentially sent from both just now, or if you wish, has also been poured out from both; for He was called living water. And "John indeed baptized with water; but you," says the Lord, "will be baptized in the Holy Spirit." How then could they have been baptized, if the living water had not been poured out?

Therefore He was poured out essentially for our sake and after us; for He Himself was manifested through Himself providing the divine power, but He is also always essentially present with us, and certainly also hypostatically, even if we least of all partake of the essence or of the hypostasis, but of the grace. But He proceeds not only before us, but also before the ages without cause from the Father alone. And Peter, at once the foundation and the chief of the church, also made known to us the difference of this pouring out of the Holy Spirit from both: "for the Son, having received," he says, "the promise of the Spirit from the Father, poured out this which you now see and hear," plainly stating that voice of the Lord and teacher, "but when the Comforter comes, whom I will send from the Father."

The Spirit is therefore poured out upon us from the Father as from Himself, but from the Son as receiving it from the Father. So that the Son does not have the Spirit from Himself (p. 304), nor does the Spirit have His existence through the Son, but the Father has it from Himself, proceeding from Himself immediately without cause and before the ages; but the Son, he says, also makes this spring forth for us from His own nature, reasonably and most truly; for the nature is one for the three and they are naturally in one another. And as often as this divinely-minded Cyril says the Spirit is from the essence of the Son, he presents the consubstantial, but not that the Son is the cause of the Spirit. Since he also wrote such things against those who contradicted the consubstantial; for the Holy Spirit is called living water and the Father is the fount of this water, who says through the prophet concerning the Jews: "they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and hewed out for themselves broken cisterns."

The Son is also a fountain of this water, just as Chrysostom also, writing about baptism, says, "the Savior shows," he says, "Himself to be a fountain of life, and the Holy Spirit living water." But Christ also shows the Holy Spirit Himself to be a fountain of this water: "For he who drinks," He says, "of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever; but the water that I will give, that is, the Holy Spirit, will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life."

Therefore the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are together a fountain of the living water, that is, of the divine grace and energy of the Spirit. For Scripture, father Chrysostom says, calls the grace of the Spirit sometimes fire, sometimes water, showing that these are not names of essence, but of energy." For the Holy Spirit is not composed of different essences, being both invisible and simple. "But from the divine nature," they say, "and from that of the Son Himself, the Holy Spirit springs forth." Let it be so, if you wish, (p. 306) also according to the eternal existence; He springs forth indeed from the divine nature, but according to the paternal hypostasis alone. For this reason no one of the pious theologians from the beginning of time has ever said that the Spirit is from the hypostasis of the Son, but from the hypostasis of the Father; but from the nature of the Son and naturally to be from Him, if one were to say, but

δέ, οὐκ οὐσιώδης ἦν καί ἡ πρός ἡμᾶς ἀποστολή τοῦ Λόγου, ἐξ ἀμφοῖν τοῦ Πατρός γενομένη καί τοῦ Πνεύματος; Ἀλλ᾿ ἡ ἀποστολή γέννησις οὐκ ἦν˙ οὐ γάρ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ὁ Υἱός γεγέννηται, οὐδέ δι᾿ ἡμᾶς, ἀλλ᾿ οὐδέ μεθ᾿ ἡμᾶς, εἰ καί μεθ᾿ ἡμᾶς δι᾿ ἡμᾶς οὐσιωδῶς κατῆλθεν ἑνωθείς τῇ καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς φύσει καθ᾿ ὑπόστασιν καί γεγονώς καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ὑπέρ ἡμῶν, μή πρό ἡμῶν μόνον, ἀλλά καί πρό τῶν αἰώνων, ἐκ μόνου τοῦ Πατρός γεγεννημένος ὤν. Καί τό Πνεῦμα τοίνυν τό ἅγιον οὐσιωδῶς ἐπέμφθη ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἀρτίως, εἰ δέ βούλει, καί ἐκκέχυται παρ᾿ ἀμφοτέρων˙ ὕδωρ γάρ ἐκλήθη ζῶν. Καί «Ἰωάννης μέν ἐβάπτισεν ὕδατι˙ ὑμεῖς δέ, φησίν ὁ Κύριος, βαπτισθήσεσθε ἐν Πνεύματι ἁγίῳ». Πῶς ἄν οὖν ἐβαπτίσθησαν, μή τοῦ ζῶντος ἐκχυθέντος ὕδατος;

Ἐκκέχυται τοίνυν οὐσιωδῶς δι᾿ ἡμᾶς καί μεθ᾿ ἡμᾶς˙ αὐτό γάρ ἐφανερώθη δι᾿ ἑαυτοῦ τήν θείαν δύναμιν παρέχον, ἀλλά καί πάρεστιν ἀεί οὐσιωδῶς ἡμῖν, πάντως δέ καί καθ᾿ ὑπόστασιν, κἄν ἡμεῖς τῆς οὐσίας ἤ τῆς ὑποστάσεως ἥκιστα μετέχωμεν, ἀλλά τῆς χάριτος. Ἐκπορεύεται δέ οὐ πρό ἡμῶν μόνον, ἀλλά καί πρό τῶν αἰώνων ἀναιτίως ἐκ μόνου τοῦ Πατρός. Ὁ δέ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐν ταὐτῷ καί θεμέλιος καί κορυφαῖος Πέτρος καί αὐτῆς τῆς παρ᾿ ἀμφοτέρων ἐκχύσεως τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος διαφοράν ἐγνώρισεν ἡμῖν˙ «τήν γάρ ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ Πνεύματος ὁ Υἱός λαβών, φησί, παρά τοῦ Πατρός, ἐξέχεε τοῦτο ὅ νῦν ὑμεῖς βλέπετε καί ἀκούετε», ἄντικρυς ἐκείνην λέγων τοῦ Κυρίου καί διδασκάλου τήν φωνήν, «ὅταν δέ ἔλθῃ ὁ παράκλητος, ὅν ἐγώ πέμψω παρά τοῦ Πατρός».

Ἐκχεῖται τοιγαροῦν ἡμῖν τό Πνεῦμα παρά τοῦ Πατρός ὡς καί ἑαυτοῦ, παρά δέ τοῦ Υἱοῦ ὡς παρά τοῦ Πατρός λαμβάνοντος. Ὥστε, οὐκ ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ μέν ἔχει τό Πνεῦμα (σελ. 304) ὁ Υἱός, οὐδέ διά τοῦ Υἱοῦ τήν ὕπαρξιν τό Πνεῦμα ἔχει, ἀλλ᾿ ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ ἔχει ὁ Πατήρ, ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ ἀμέσως ἐκπορευόμενον ἀναιτίως καί προαιωνίως˙ ἀλλά καί ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας ἡμῖν, φησί, ὁ Υἱός τοῦτ᾿ ἀναπηγάζει φύσεως, εἰκότως καί παναληθῶς˙ μία γάρ φύσις τοῖς τρισί καί φυσικῶς ἔνεισιν ἀλλήλοις. Καί ὁσάκις ὁ θεόφρων οὗτος Κύριλλος ἐκ τοῦς οὐσίας τοῦ Υἱοῦ τό Πνεῦμα λέγει, τό ὁμοούσιον παρίστησιν, ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ αἴτιον εἶναι τόν Υἱόν τοῦ Πνεύματος. Ἐπεί καί πρός τούς ἀντιλέγοντας τῷ ὁμοουσίῳ τά τοιαῦτα γέγραφεν˙ ὕδωρ μέν γάρ ζω[ν ακλεῖται τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον καί πηγή ἐστι τούτου τοῦ ὕδατος ὁ Πατήρ, ὅς διά τοῦ προφήτου περί τῶν Ἰουδαίων λέγει˙ «ἐμέ ἐγκατέλιπον πηγήν ὕδατος ζῶντος καί ὤρυξαν ἑαυτοῖς λάκκους συντετριμμένους».

Πηγή ἐστι τούτου τοῦ ὕδατος καί ὁ Υἱός, καθό καί ὁ Χρυσόστομος περί τοῦ βαπτίσματος γράφων, «δείκνυσι», φησίν, «ἑαυτόν ὁ σωτήρ πηγήν ζωῆς καί ὕδωρ ζῶν τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον». Ἀλλά τοῦ ὕδατος τούτου πηγήν εἶναι δείκνυσιν ὁ Χριστός καί αὐτό τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον˙ «ὁ πιών γάρ», φησίν, «ἐκ τοῦ ὕδατος οὗ ἐγώ δώσω αὐτῷ, οὐ μή διψήσῃ εἰς τόν αἰῶνα˙ ἀλλά τό ὕδωρ ὅ ἐγώ δώσω, δηλαδή τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, γενήσεται αὐτῷ πηγή ὕδατος ἁλλομένου εἰς ζωήν αἰώνιον».

Ἔστιν οὖν καί ὁ Πατήρ καί ὁ Υἱός καί τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ὁμοῦ πηγή τοῦ ζῶντος ὕδατος, τουτέστι τῆς θείας χάριτος καί ἐνεργείας τοῦ Πνεύματος. Τήν χάριν γάρ τοῦ Πνεύματος ἡ Γραφή, ὁ Χρυσόστομός φησι πατήρ, ποτέ μέν πῦρ, ποτέ δέ ὕδωρ καλεῖ δεικνῦσα ὅτι οὐ οὐσίας ἐστί ταῦτα ὀνόματα, ἀλλ᾿ ἐνεργείας». Οὐ γάρ ἐκ διαφόρων οὐσιῶν συνέστηκε τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, ἀόρατόν τε καί μονοειδές ὄν. «Ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ τῆς θείας φύσεως», φασί, «καί αὐτῆς τῆς τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἀναπηγάζει τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον». Ἔστω δή, εἰ βούλεσθε, (σελ. 306) καί κατά τήν ἀΐδιον ὕπαρξιν˙ πηγάζει γοῦν ἐκ τῆς θείας φύσεως, ἀλλά καθ᾿ ὑπόστασιν μόνην τήν πατρικήν. ∆ιό οὐδείς οὐδέποτε τῶν ἀπ᾿ αἰῶνος εὐσεβῶν θεολόγων ἐκ τῆς ὑποστάσεως εἶναι τοῦ Υἰοῦ τό Πνεῦμα εἶπεν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ τῆς τοῦ Πατρός ὑποστάσεως˙ ἐκ δέ τῆς φύσεως τοῦ Υἱοῦ καί φυσικῶς εἶναι ἐξ αὐτοῦ εἴπερ τις φαίη, ἀλλ᾿