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the Son is clearly sent from the Father and from the Spirit and receives baptism, by which everyone who is baptized is born of the Spirit, and shines in their hearts, and this through the Spirit, and having strung together many other similar things, then concluding commonly according to your sciences, you will both glorify and show the Son to be born from the Spirit. But not we, O wisest of mortals, who are entirely without share in this theology according to you, but we would both rightly offer and distinguish the confession of faith, saying that the Son and the Spirit are from the Father alone, immediately from the beginning, yet each of them in a particular way.

And indeed, indicating the particularity of each mode, we call the existence of the Son from the Father generation, but that of the Holy Spirit, procession. But the things that came to pass later in time and after the creation, upon it and by them, we always divide in our thoughts from those pre-eternal and unoriginated existences, but in words, when very rarely we join this or hear it joined by some, (p. 336) we do not cast away the division in our thoughts. Such is also what is said by the Lord, "I came forth from God and am come," and "I came forth from the Father and am come into the world." For here too "I came forth," being one thing, is not indicative of one ministry; for it indicates both the mission from the Father to us, for us, upon us, and the pre-eternal procession from the substance and hypostasis of the Father.

What then, because of the unity of the word shall we join things that are greatly separated? Or because "I came forth" also indicates the mission, and the mission of the Son was from the Father and the Spirit, according to "The Lord has sent me, and his Spirit," that I may say again what has been said many times, shall we dogmatize that the Son and Word of God proceeds from the Father and from the Spirit? Not at all. Therefore neither because of the mission or manifestation or procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, I mean the manifestative and temporal one, even if it is sometimes brought together with the pre-eternal one in the wording, shall we dogmatize that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and from the Son, as long as we know him to be God from God, co-eternal with the Father who brought him forth.

But you who alone open the eyes of the blind, and through whom those who see, see, even if not simply to all, but to all who seek you in truth, grant through invisible contemplation by your unheard-of teachings in the mind, to know the truth. But if not, then lead up through faith those who have believed by hearing to the unity of your knowledge, and having shown them to be firm in faith through good works, at an opportune time reveal yourself to them, so that we all may know your glory in truth and enjoy in a spiritual and ineffable vision the thrice-holy and most monarchical brightness, and that we may glorify you unceasingly to the best of our ability, now and ever and unto the unending ages of ages. Amen.

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ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος ὁ Υἱός σαφῶς ἀποστέλλεται καί τό βάπτισμα δέχεται, καθ᾿ ὅ πᾶς βαπτιζόμενος γεννᾶται ἐκ Πνεύματος, καί ταῖς καρδίαις ἐλλάμπει, καί τοῦτο διά τοῦ Πνεύματος, καί πολλά ἕτερα τῶν παραπλησίων συνείρας, εἶτα κοινῶς κατά τάς σάς ἐπιστήμας συμπεραίνων, καί ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος γεγεννημένον εἶναι τόν Υἱόν δοξάσεις τε καί δείξεις. Ἀλλ᾿ οὐχ ἡμεῖς γε, ὦ σοφώτατε ἐπιχθονίων, οἱ τῆς κατά σέ ταύτης θεολογίας ἄμοιροι παντάπασιν, ἀλλ᾿ ὀρθῶς ἄν καί προσενέγκωμεν καί διέλωμεν τήν τῆς πίστεως ὁμολογίαν, ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός μόνου λέγοντες ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἀμέσως εἶναι τόν Υἱόν τε καί τό Πνεῦμα, ἰδιοτρόπως μέντοι ἑκάτερον αὐτῶν.

Καί δή τό ἴδιον δηλοῦντες ἑκατέρου τρόπου, τήν μέν ἐκ Πατρός ὕπαρξιν τοῦ Υἱοῦ γέννησιν προσαγορεύομεν, ἐκπόρευσιν δέ τήν τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος. Τά δ᾿ ὕστερον ἐν χρόνῳ καί μετά τήν κτίσιν ἐπί ταύτης καί ὑπό τούτων ὑπηργμένα, νοήμασι μέν ἀεί διαιροῦμεν τῶν προαιωνίων καί ἀνάρχων ὑπάρξεων ἐκείνων, ρήμασι δ᾿ ἔστιν ὅτε καί τοῦτο σπανιώτατα συνάπτοντες ἤ καί συνημμένα παρά τινων ἀκούοντες, (σελ. 336) τήν ἐν τοῖς νοήμασι διαίρεσιν οὐκ ἀποβάλλομεν. Τοιοῦτόν ἐστι καί τό παρά τοῦ Κυρίου λεγόμενον, «ἐγώ ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξῆλθον καί ἥκω», καί «ἐξῆλθον παρά τοῦ Πατρός καί ἐλήθυθα εἰς τόν κόσμον». Κἀνταῦθα γάρ τό "ἐξῆλθον" ἕν ὄν οὐ μιᾶς διακονίας ἐστί δηλωτικόν˙ τήν τε γάρ ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς δι᾿ ἡμᾶς ἐφ᾿ ἡμῶν παρά τοῦ πατρός ἀποστολήν δηλοῖ καί τήν ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας καί τῆς τοῦ Πατρός ὑποστάσεως προαιώνιον πρόοδον.

Τί οὖν, διά τό τοῦ ρήματος ἑνιαῖον συνάψομεν τά πλεῖστον διεστῶτα; Ἤ διότι τό "ἐξῆλθον" καί τήν ἀποστολήν δηλοῖ, ἡ δέ τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἀποστολή παρά τοῦ Πατρός ἐγεγόνει καί τοῦ Πνεύματος, κατά τό «Κύριος ἀπέσταλκέ με καί τό Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ», ἵν᾿ εἴπω πάλιν τό πολλάκις εἰρημένον, προελθεῖν δογματίσομεν ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος τόν Υἱόν καί Λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ; Οὔμενουν. Οὐκοῦν οὐδέ διά τήν ἐκ Πατρός καί Υἱοῦ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἀποστολήν ἤ ἔκφανσιν ἤ πρόοδον, τήν ἐκφαντικήν καί ὑπό χρόνον λέγω, κἄν εἰς ἕν τῇ προαιωνίῳ ἐνίοτε συνάγηται κατά τήν λέξιν, ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός καί ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ δογματίσομεν ἐκπορεύεσθαι τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, μέχρις ἄν ἐκ Θεοῦ Θεόν γινώσκωμεν αὐτό τῷ προενεγκόντι Πατρί ἐπίσης προαιώνιον.

Ἀλλ᾿ ὁ μόνος διανοίγων ὀφθαλμοῖς τυφλῶν, καί δι᾿ οὗ ὁρῶσιν οἱ ὁρῶντες, εἰ καί μή ἁπαξαπλῶς τοῖς πᾶσιν, ἀλλά τοῖς ἐν ἀληθείᾳ σε ζητοῦσιν ἅπασι, δίδου δι᾿ ἀοράτου θεωρίας ἀνηκούστοις σοῖς ἐν νῷ διδάγμασιν, ἐπιγινώσκειν τήν ἀλήθειαν. Εἰ δ᾿ οὖν, ἀλλά δι᾿ ἀκοῆς πιστεύσαντας πρός τήν ἑνότητα τῆς σῆς ἐπιγνώσεως διά πίστεως ἀνάγαγε, καί δι᾿ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν βεβαιοπίστους ἀποδείξας ἐν καιρῷ εὐθέτῳ φανέρωσον σαὐτόν αὐτοῖς, ἵν᾿ εἰδῶμεν τήν σήν ἐπ᾿ ἀληθείας δόξαν ἅπαντες καί καταπολαύσωμεν ἐν πνευματικῇ καί ἀπορρήτῳ θέᾳ τῆς τρισηλίου καί μοναρχικωτάτης φαιδρότητος, καί δοξάσωμέν σε πρός δύναμιν ἀδιαλείπτως, νῦν καί ἀεί καί εἰς τους ἀκαταλήκτους αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.