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Rightly then did we say, that "the proceeding" in reference to the Holy Spirit does not always signify the pre-eternal existence from the Father, but sometimes also the later manifestation, in which the Son also will share with the Father, which the divine Cyril also shows clearly, saying, "The Spirit makes the Son to spring forth to us from His own nature." For by adding "to us," he makes us understand the temporal nature of the sending. And that what springs forth to us from the Father and the Son is an energy and gift of the divine Spirit, Joel foretells, or rather through him God, not "I will pour out my Spirit," he says, but "I will pour out of my Spirit." For as the father Chrysostom also says, "he speaks of a part of the energy; for the Paraclete is not divided." And the chief of the apostles in many places, or rather everywhere, calls what was then poured out upon them a gift. And again the golden theologian: "not God," he says, "but grace is poured out."

Not for these reasons, therefore, does the Spirit proceed from the Father and the Son; for we would (p. 332) dishonor this rather than glorify it, by ranking it with those things that have their being through the Son. Therefore we glorify it as proceeding from the Father alone, in its own proper manner and pre-eternally, just as the Son is begotten; and glorifying it thus, we co-glorify it and co-worship it with the Son and with the Father.

And making this clear, the God-wise fathers, in the symbol of orthodoxy, brought together into one the Spirit's proceeding from the Father and His being co-glorified with the Father and the Son, proclaiming and transmitting it jointly, since those who do not glorify the Holy Spirit as proceeding from the Father alone, just as indeed the Son is begotten, are not even able to co-worship the Spirit with them, being considered in His own hypostasis.

For if the procession of the Spirit were always common to them as being from them, the Spirit would be only an energy and not in a hypostasis; for only an energy is what is common to them. It is common to them, then, as being consubstantial, but not always common to them as being from both, even if now at the end of the ages it has been poured out from both, and I will add that it is also from Himself; for it is poured out to us by His own authority. For it was also said prophetically to the Son, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you." But we know that this generation exists in time. And what of it, did not the Spirit also co-work this generation, by whom the substance of the Son assumed according to us was anointed at the baptism and being anointed was revealed, because even before the baptism it had become co-divine, since also in the beginning the Son of God, "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and Mary the virgin," according to what is written?

Will you therefore say that the Son was begotten before the ages from the Father and from the Spirit because of this generation in time? But you perhaps, who acquire knowledge about (p. 334) God by logical methods and who conjecture about pre-eternal realities from things that happened later, as you yourself say; but you would also bring forth for us a most worthy witness, the Son himself, saying through the prophet, "The Lord has sent me, and his Spirit"; for this too is yours, to consider sending and the mode of existence to be the same. And in addition to this you will misuse and misinterpret the great Paul, and this willingly and with malice, or out of ignorance and not confessing it. "For to one," he says, "is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge." But Christ also dwells in the hearts of those who are not reprobate, certainly through the Spirit, and is seen intellectually and is formed and is manifested, and these things are through the Spirit. Therefore, reasoning further, you will say, if through the Spirit, also from the Spirit. But if

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Καλῶς ἄρ᾿ ἔφημεν, ὡς τό ἐκπορευόμενον ἐπί τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος οὐκ ἀεί τήν ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός προαιώνιον ὕπαρξιν δηλοῖ, ἀλλ᾿ ἔστιν ὅτε καί τήν ὕστερον φανέρωσιν, καθ᾿ ἥν καί ὁ Υἱός κοινωνήσει τῷ Πατρί, ὅ καί ὁ θεῖος Κύριλλος δείκνυσι σαφῶς λέγων, «Τό Πνεῦμα τόν Υἱόν ἐξ ἰδίας ἡμῖν ἀναπηγάζει φύσεως». Προστιθείς γάρ τό "ἡμῖν", συνιέναι δίδωσι τό χρονικόν τῆς ἀναδόσεως. Καί ὅτι ἐνέργεια καί δωρεά ἐστι τοῦ θείου Πνεύματος τό ἐκ Πατρός καί Υἱοῦ πηγαζόμενον ἡμῖν, Ἰωήλ προκαταγγέλλων, μᾶλλον δέ διά τούτου ὁ Θεός, οὐκ «ἐκχεῶ τό Πνεῦμα μου», φησίν, ἀλλ᾿ «ἐκχεῶ ἀπό τοῦ Πνεύματός μου». Ὡς γάρ καί ὁ Χρυσόστομός φησι πατήρ, «τό μέρος λέγει τῆς ἐνεργείας˙ οὐ γάρ ὁ παράκλητος μερίζεται». Ὁ δέ τῶν ἀποστόλων κορυφαῖος πολλαχοῦ, μᾶλλον δέ πανταχοῦ, δωρεάν καλεῖ τήν ἐκχυθεῖσαν τηνικαῦτα πρός αὐτούς. Καί ὁ χρυσοῦς πάλιν θεολόγος˙ «οὐχ ὁ Θεός», φησίν, «ἀλλ᾿ ἡ χάρις ἐκχεῖται».

Οὐκ ἄρα διά ταῦτα ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἐκπορεύεσθαι τό Πνεῦμα˙ ἀτιμάσαμεν γάρ ἄν (σελ. 332) τοῦτο μᾶλλον ἤ δοξάσαιμεν, τοῖς διά τοῦ Υἱοῦ εἶναι σχοῦσι συντάττοντες αὐτό. Τοιγαροῦν ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός μόνου δοξάζομεν ἐκπορευόμενον ἰδιοτρόπως καί προαιωνίως, ὡς καί ὁ Υἰός γεννᾶται˙ καί οὕτω δοξάζοντες, συνδοξάζομεν αὐτό καί συμπροσκυνοῦμεν τῷ Υἱῷ καί τῷ Πατρί.

Καί τοῦτο δηλοῦντες οἱ θεόσοφοι πατέρες, ἐπί τοῦ συμβόλου τῆς ὀρθοδοξίας τό ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορεύεσθαι τό Πνεῦμα καί τό συνδοξάζεσθαι τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ Υἱῷ συνήγαγον εἰς ἕν, συνημμένως ἐκφωνήσαντες καί παραδόντες, ὡς τῶν μή δοξαζόντων ἐκ μόνου τοῦ Πατρός ἐκπορευόμενον τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καί τόν Υἱόν γεγεννημένον, οὐδέ συμπροσκυνεῖν τό Πνεῦμα ἐκείνοις δυναμένων, ἐν ἰδίᾳ ὑποστάσει θεωρούμενον.

Εἰ γάρ κοινόν ἀεί αὐτοῖς ὡς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἡ τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐκπόρευσις, ἐνέργεια ἄν τό Πνεῦμα εἴη μόνη καί οὐκ ἐν ὑποστάσει˙ μόνον γάρ ἐνέργια, ἤ γε αὐτοῖς κοινή. Κοινόν μέν οὖν αὐτοῖς ὡς ὁμοούσιον, ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ ἀεί αὐτοῖς κοινόν ὡς ἐξ ἀμφοῖν εἰ καί νῦν ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτου τῶν αἰώνων ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἐκκέχυται, προσθήσω δ᾿ ὅτι καί παρ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ˙ καί γάρ αὐτεξουσίως πρός ἡμᾶς ἐκχεῖται. Καί πρός τόν Υἱόν γάρ εἴρηται προφητικῶς εἰπεῖν, «Υἱός μου εἰ σύ, ἐγώ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε». Ἀλλ᾿ ἴσμεν ὑπό χρόνον ταύτην ὑπάρχουσαν τήν γέννησιν. Τί δέ, οὐχί καί τό Πνεῦμα ταύτην συνειργάσατο τήν γέννησιν, ᾧ τό καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἀνειλημμένον τοῦ Υἱοῦ φύραμα ἐπί τοῦ βαπτίσματος ἐχρίσθη καί χρισθέν ἐφανερώθη, ὅτι καί πρό τοῦ βαπτίσματος γέγονεν ὁμόθεον, ἐπεί καί τήν ἀρχήν ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Υἱός, «ἐκ Πνεύματος ἁγίου καί Μαρίας ἐσαρκώθη τῆς παρθένου», κατά τό γεγραμμένον;

Ἆρ᾿ οὖν ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐρεῖςγεγεννῆσθαι πρό αἰώνων τόν Υἱόν διά τήν ὑπό χρόνον ταύτην γέννησιν; Σύ δέ ἴσως ὁ λογικαῖς ἐφόδοις τήν περί (σελ. 334) Θεοῦ γνῶσιν ποριζόμενος καί ἐκ τῶν ὕστερον ὡς αὐτός φῄς γεγονότων τά προαιωνίως ὄντα στοχαζόμενος˙ ἀλλά καί μάρτυρά γε ἀξιολογώτατον ἡμῖν ἄν ἐπαγάγοις τόν Υἱόν αὐτόν διά τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντα, «Κύριος ἀπέσταλκέ με καί τό Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ»˙ καί τοῦτο γάρ σόν, ταὐτόν εἴεσθαι ἀποστολήν τε καί τρόπον ὑπάρξως. Πρός δέ τούτῳ καί τῷ τοῦ μεγάλου προσχρήσῃ καί παρεξηγήσῃ Παύλου, καί τοῦθ᾿ ἑκών καί ἐθελοκακῶν ἤ ἀγνοῶν καί μή ὁμολογῶν. «Ὧ μέν γάρ» φησίν ἐκεῖνος, «διά τοῦ Πνεύματος δίδοται λόγος σοφίας, ἄλλῳ δέ λόγος γνώσεως». Ἀλλά καί ὁ Χριστός ἐνοικεῖ ταῖς καρδίαις τῶν μή ἀδοκίμων, πάντως διά τοῦ Πνεύματος, καί νοερῶς ὁρᾶται καί ἐμμορφοῦται καί ἐμφανίζεται, καί ταῦτα διά τοῦ Πνεύματος. Οὐκοῦν προσυλλογιζόμενος ἐρεῖς, εἰ διά τοῦ Πνεύματος, καί ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος. Εἰ δ᾿