somehow has its existence also from that hypostasis, and vice versa; for whatever is from that hypostasis is also from that essence. But when something is of one essence, but not of one hypostasis, but of several, that which is from that one essence is not from its other hypostases, but from one of them. Since, therefore, for us the most high and adorable Trinity is one nature in three hypostases, not everything that has its hypostasis from the essence is from the other hypostases, but from one of them, namely the paternal; for it is not possible for it not to be from this one. Therefore not also from another, but from it alone, if from one. And this is clear from human beings; for each of us is from the essence of Adam, but no longer from the hypostasis of Adam, because the essence of human beings is now one, but the hypostases are many; but at the beginning there being one human essence and hypostasis, that of Adam, Eve, being from the essence of Adam, was also from his hypostasis. But also before Cain existed, there being one masculine essence and hypostasis, Cain existed from one and the same masculine essence and hypostasis, that of Adam; but when there were already two men in hypostasis, the son born to Cain existed from the essence of Adam, but not also from his hypostasis, but from that of Cain alone. (p. 370) But this Latin-minded person, insisting here that the Spirit is also from the hypostasis of the Son, if indeed He is theologized as being from the nature, shows that he thinks there is one hypostasis upon God just as there is one essence, the wretch completely setting aside either the Son or the Father, and in addition to this showing that the existence of the divine Spirit is from the Son alone. But also from the sayings, which theologize that the Father is a perfect essence and the Son is a perfect essence, and likewise the Holy Spirit, he does not recognize the unity and identity of the essence of the three, but foolishly attempts to perceive in it from this a certain plurality and difference.

Twelfth Inscription Since there are some who dare to say that the Spirit’s gushing forth and proceeding and

shining forth and appearing from the Son does not signify His existing essentially and hypostatically from the Son, but the distribution of spiritual gifts from Him, for the refutation of such foolishness the present scriptural citations have been chosen, which declare that the Son gushes forth and shines forth and has appeared from the Father; for surely no one will say that it is not the Son who gushes forth and shines forth and has appeared from the Father essentially and hypostatically, but the gifts of the Son.

Twelfth Counter-Inscription That which has its existence from someone by generation or by procession is said also to proceed from him

and to be sent forth and to shine forth, (p. 372) if it is light, and whatever is similar to these things. By no means does everything that proceeds or is sent forth or shines forth from someone also have its existence from that one by generation or by procession and exist in its own hypostasis. But this one, who composed these inscriptions, accuses of audacity those who think piously and intelligently, being himself audacious in impiety.

ὁπωσδήποτε τήν ὕπαρξιν καί ἐκ τῆς ὑποστάσεως ἐκείνης ταύτην ἔχει καί ἀντιστρόφως˙ ὅ γάρ ἄν ἐκ τῆς ὑποστάσεως ἐκείνης ᾖ καί ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας ἐκείνης ἐστίν. Ὅταν δέ τι μιᾶς μέν οὐσίας ᾖ, οὐ μιᾶς δέ ὑποστάσεως, ἀλλά πλειόνων, τό ἐκ τῆς μιᾶς ἐκείνης οὐσίας οὐκ ἐκ τῶν λοιπῶν αὐτῆς ὑποστάσεών ἐστιν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ μιᾶς τινος αὐτῶν. Ἐπεί οὖν ἡ ἀνωτάτω καί προσκυνητή Τριάς ἡμῖν μία φύσις ἐστίν ἐν ὑποστάσεσι τρισίν, οὐ πᾶν τό ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας τήν ὑπόστασιν ἔχον ἐκ τῶν λοιπῶν ὑποστάσεών ἐστιν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ μιᾶς τινος αὐτῶν, δηλαδή τῆς πατρικῆς˙ ἐκ ταύτης γάρ μή εἶναι οὐκ ἐνδέχεται. Οὐκοῦν οὐχί καί ἐξ ἑτέρας, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ μόνης, εἶπερ ἐκ μιᾶς. Καί τοῦτο δῆλον ἀπό τῶν ἀνθρώπων˙ ἕκαστος γάρ ἡμῶν ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας μέν ἐστι τοῦ Ἀδάμ, οὐκέτι δέ ἐκ τῆς ὑποστάσεως τοῦ Ἀδάμ, διότι μία μέν οὐσία τῶν ἀνθρώπων νῦν, πολλαί δέ ὑποστάσεις˙ ἀνθρωπίνης δέ τήν ἀρχήν μιᾶς οὔσης οὐσίας τε καί ὑποστάσεως, τῆς τοῦ Ἀδάμ, ἐκ τοῦ οὐσία ς τοῦ Ἀδάμ ἡ Εὔα οὖσα καί ἐκ τῆς ὑποστάσεως ἐκείνου ἦν. Ἀλλά καί πρίν τόν Κάϊν εἶναι, μιᾶς οὔσης ἀνδρικῆς οὐσίας τε καί ὑποστάσεως, ἐκ μιᾶς καί τῆς αὐτῆς ὁ Κάϊν ἀνδρικῆς οὐσίας τε καί ὑποστάσεως ὑπῆρχε, τοῦ Ἀδάμ˙ δυοῖν δέ ἀνδρῶν ἤδη καθ᾿ ὑπόστασιν τελούντων, ὁ τῷ Κάϊν γεννηθείς υἱός ἐκ τοῦς οὐσίας μέν ὑπῆρχε τοῦ Ἀδάμ, ἀλλ᾿ οὐχί καί ἐκ τῆς ὑποστάσεως αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ᾿ἐκ μόνης τῆς τοῦ Κάϊν. (σελ. 370) Ὁ δέ λατινόφρων οὗτος διατεινόμενος ἐνταῦθα καί ἐκ τῆς ὑποστάσεως εἶναι τοῦ Υἱοῦ τό Πνεῦμα, εἴπερ εἶναι θεολογεῖται ἐκ τῆς φύσεως, μίαν δείκνυσι φρονῶν ὥσπερ οὐσίαν οὕτω καί ὑπόστασιν ἐπί Θεοῦ, τόν Υἱόν ἤ τόν Πατέρα τελέως ἀθετῶν ὁ τάλας, πρός δέ τούτῳ καί ἐκ μόνου τοῦ Υἱοῦ τήν ὕπαρξιν εἶναι τοῦ θείου Πνεύματος δεικνύς. Ἀλλά καί ἀπό τῶν ρητῶν, ἅ θεολογοῦσι τελείαν οὐσίαν εἶναι τόν Πατέρα καί τελείαν οὐσίαν τόν Υἱόν, ὡσαύτως καί τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, οὐ τό ἑνιαῖον καί ἀπαράλλακτον τῆς οὐσίας ἐπιγινώσκει τῶν τριῶν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐνθεωρεῖν πειρᾶται πληθυσμόν τινα καί διαφοράν ἐντεῦθεν κατ᾿ αὐτήν ἀφρόνως.

Ἐπιγραφή δωδεκάτη Ἐπειδή εἰσίν τινες ἀποτολμῶντες καί λέγοντες τό ἀναβλύζειν καί προϊέναι καί

ἐκλάμπειν καί πεφηνέναι ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τό Πνεῦμα μή δηλοῦν τό οὐσιωδῶς καί ἐνυποστάτως ὑπάρχειν αὐτό ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ, ἀλλά τήν ἐξ αὐτοῦ τῶν πνευματικῶν χαρισμάτων διανομήν, εἰς ἔλεγχον τῆς τοιαύτης ἀνοίας ἐξελέγησαν αἱ παροῦσαι γραφικαί χρήσεις, αἱ δηλοῦσαι ἀναβλύζειν καί ἐκλάμπειν καί πεφηνέναι τόν Υἱόν ἐκ Πατρός˙ οὐ γάρ δή τις ἐρεῖ ὡς οὐχ ὁ Υἱός ἐστιν ὁ ἀναβλύζων καί ἐκλάμπων καί πεφηνώς ἐκ Πατρός οὐσιωδῶς καί ἐνυποστάτως, ἀλλά τά χαρίσματα τοῦ Υἱοῦ.

Ἀντεπιγραφή δωδεκάτη Τό γεννητῶς ἔκ τινος ἤ ἐκπορευτῶς τήν ὕπαρξιν ἔχον ἐξ αὐτοῦ καί προϊέναι

λέγεται καί ἐκπέμπεσθαι καί ἐκλάμπειν, (σελ. 372) εἴπερ φῶς ἐστι, καί ὅσα παραπλήσια τούτοις. Οὐ μή πᾶν τό προϊόν ἤ ἐκπεμπόμενον ἤ ἐκλάμπον ἔκ τινος καί ἐξ ἐκείνου γεννητῶς ἤ ἐκπορευτῶς τήν ὕπαρξιν ἔχει καί ἐν ἰδίᾳ ὑποστάσει ἐστίν. Οὗτος δέ, ὁ τάς ἐπιγραφάς ταύτας συγγραψάμενος, τόλμαν ἐγκαλεῖ τοῖς εὐσεβῶς καί νουνεχῶς φρονοῦσι τολμητίας ὤν αὐτός περί τό δυσσεβεῖν.