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if I do not go away, the Paraclete, he says, will not come to you. But when he comes, he will remind you of all things" and again: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments, and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Paraclete, that he may remain with you forever, the Spirit of truth" and after a little: "On that day when, that is, the Holy Spirit will come to (416) you — you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you" and again: "John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit," and rightly so; for if one is not baptized in the Holy Spirit, he becomes neither a son of God nor a co-heir with Christ. But he also says to Peter: "To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of the heavens," not keys of bronze or iron, certainly, but keys worthy of that house. And what sort of house is that? Hear Paul saying in the epistle to Timothy: "I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus," and after a few words: "the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light". For if the house, he says, is unapproachable, clearly the door of the house is also light and it too is unapproachable. But if you say the one is approachable, the other unapproachable, the approachable will be consumed by the unapproachable and the key would never have strength to open, unless it too is unapproachable and of the same nature, but it will be burned up by the door, or the door by the house, and perhaps it will become inaccessible to all. Rather, our faith too will be destroyed, with the Holy Trinity being divided into approachable and unapproachable, and greater and lesser.

But see to it that when you hear these things, taking images from perceptible houses and doors, some bodily form is not pre-imprinted on your mind, and your soul fall into doubt and blasphemy. But in a manner worthy of God and well, (417) if you are able, reasoning within yourselves according to the principle and law of contemplation, you will find all things correctly interpreted. But if you are not able to understand these things in a manner so worthy of God, receive them by faith alone and do not wish to be overly curious at all. For the Holy Spirit is called a key, because through him and in him we are first illumined in the mind and, being purified, are enlightened with the light of knowledge, and we are baptized from above and are born again and are called children of God, as Paul says: "The Spirit himself intercedes for us with unutterable groanings," and again: "God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father'." This, therefore, shows us that the door is light, and the door teaches us that he who dwells in the house is himself also unapproachable light. The dwelling God is not one thing and his house another light, just as the light of the Godhead is not one thing and God another. But he is one and the same, house and dweller, just as he is the same, light and God. And theologically, the Son is also called a house, just as the Father is - for he says: "You, Father, are in me and I in them and they in me and I, Father in you, that we may be one," and the Spirit likewise: "I will dwell," he says, "in them and walk among them. I and the Father will come and we will make our home with him," that is, through the Spirit, as Paul says: "For the Lord is the Spirit." If therefore the Lord is the Spirit and the Father in him and he in us, and likewise again we in him, and he with God and the Father and God in him.

(418) And if one must say something more precisely, whatever the one is, this the other two are also. For the three are in the same and are understood as one essence and nature and kingdom. If therefore the one is named something, this is by nature also considered for the others, apart from "Father," that is, and "Son," and "Holy Spirit," or rather, apart from "to beget" and "to be begotten" and "to proceed"; for these alone naturally and as a property irrefutably belong to the Holy Trinity. But alteration or reversal or the of

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ἐγώ μή ἀπέλθω, ὁ Παράκλητος, φησίν, οὐκ ἐλεύσεται πρός ὑμᾶς. Ὅταν δέ ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος, ἀναμνήσει ὑμᾶς πάντα" καί πάλιν· "Ἐάν ἀγαπᾶτέ με, τάς ἐντολάς τάς ἐμάς τηρήσετε, καί ἐγώ ἐρωτήσω τόν Πατέρα καί ἄλλον Παράκλητον δώσει ὑμῖν, ἵνα μένῃ μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν εἰς τόν αἰῶνα, τό Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας" καί μετ᾿ ὀλίγον· "Ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὅτε δηλονότι τό Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα ἐλεύσεται πρός (416) ὑμᾶς - γνώσεσθε ὑμεῖς ὅτι ἐγώ ἐν τῷ Πατρί μου καί ὑμεῖς ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ ἐν ὑμῖν" καί πάλιν· "Ἰωάννης μέν ἐβάπτισεν ὕδατι, ὑμεῖς δέ βαπτισθήσεσθε ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ", καί εἰκότως· εἰ μή γάρ ἐν Ἁγίῳ βαπτισθῇ τις Πνεύματι, οὔτε υἱός Θεοῦ οὔτε συγκληρονόμος Χριστοῦ γίνεται. Ἀλλά καί τῷ Πέτρῳ φησί· "Σοί δώσω τάς κλείς τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν", οὐ κλεῖς πάντως χαλκᾶς ἤ σιδηρᾶς, ἀλλά κλεῖς ἀξίας τῆς οἰκίας ἐκείνης. Ποταπή δέ ἐστιν ἡ οἰκία ἐκείνη, ἄκουε Παύλου λέγοντος ἐν τῇ πρός Τιμόθεον ἐπιστολῇ· "Παραγγέλλω σοι ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦ ζωοποιοῦντος τά πάντα, καί Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ", καί μετ᾿ ὀλίγα· "Ὁ μακάριος καί μόνος δυνάστης, ὁ βασιλεύς τῶν βασιλευόντων καί Κύριος τῶν κυριευόντων, ὁ μόνος ἔχων ἀθανασίαν, φῶς οἰκῶν ἀπρόσιτον". Εἰ γάρ ὁ οἶκος, φησίν, ἐστίν ἀπρόσιτος, δηλονότι καί ἡ τοῦ οἴκου θύρα φῶς καί αὕτη καί ἀπρόσιτός ἐστιν. Εἰ δέ τό μέν προσιτόν εἴπῃς, τό δέ ἀπρόσιτον, τό προσιτόν ὑπό τοῦ ἀπροσίτου ἀναλωθήσεται καί οὐκ ἄν ποτε ἡ κλείς ἀνοῖξαι ἰσχύσει, εἰ μή καί αὐτή ἀπρόσιτος ᾖ καί τῆς αὐτῆς φύσεως, ἀλλ᾿ ὑπό τῆς θύρας κατακαήσεται ἤ καί ἡ θύρα ὑπό τοῦ οἴκου, καί ἴσως τοῖς πᾶσι γενήσεται ἄβατος. Μᾶλλον δέ καί ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν καταλυθήσεται, τῆς Ἁγίας Τριάδος διαιρουμένης εἰς προσιτόν καί ἀπρόσιτον καί μεῖζον καί ἔλασσον.

Ὁρᾶτε δέ μή ταῦτα ὑμεῖς ἀκούοντες, ἀπό τῶν αἰσθητῶν οἰκιῶν ὁμοῦ καί θυρῶν τάς εἰκόνας λαμβάνοντες, σωματικόν τι σχῆμα τῷ νοΐ ὑμῶν προεντυπωθῇ, καί εἰς ἀμφιβολίαν καί βλασφημίαν περιπέσῃ ὑμῶν ἡ ψυχή. Ἀλλά θεοπρεπῶς ἅπαντα καί καλῶς, (417) εἴγε δύνασθε, κατά τόν τῆς θεωρίας λόγον καί νόμον ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἀναλογιζόμενοι, εὑρήσετε ὀρθῶς ἅπαντα διερμηνευόμενα. Εἰ δέ μή δύνασθε ταῦτα θεοπρεπῶς οὕτω νοεῖν, πίστει ταῦτα δέχεσθε μόνῃ καί μή πολυπραγμονεῖν ὅλως θελήσητε. Κλείς μέν γάρ τό Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα λέγεται, ὅτι δι᾿ αὐτοῦ καί ἐν αὐτῷ πρῶτον τόν νοῦν ἐλλαμπόμεθα καί καθαιρόμενοι φωτιζόμεθα φῶς γνώσεως, βαπτιζόμεθά τε ἄνωθεν καί ἀναγεννώμεθα καί τέκνα Θεοῦ χρηματίζομεν, καθώς ὁ Παῦλός φησιν· "Αὐτό τό Πνεῦμα ἐντυγχάνει ὑπέρ ἡμῶν στεναγμοῖς ἀλαλήτοις", καί πάλιν· "Ἔδωκεν ὁ Θεός τό Πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν κρᾶζον· Ἀββά ὁ Πατήρ". Τοῦτο τοιγαροῦν δεικνύει τήν θύραν ἡμῖν ὅτι ἐστί φῶς, ἡ δέ θύρα διδάσκει ἡμᾶς ὅτι ὁ ἐνοικῶν τῇ οἰκίᾳ καί αὐτός φῶς ἀπρόσιτον ἐστιν. Οὐκ ἄλλος δέ ὁ οἰκῶν Θεός καί ἕτερον φῶς ἡ οἰκία αὐτοῦ, ὥσπερ οὐδέ ἄλλο φῶς τό τῆς Θεότητος καί ἄλλο Θεός. Ἀλλ᾿ ὁ αὐτός εἷς ἐστιν, οἰκία καί ἔνοικος, καθώς καί φῶς ἐστιν ὁ αὐτός καί Θεός. Θεολογικῶς δέ οἰκία καί ὁ Υἱός καλεῖται, ὥσπερ καί ὁ Πατήρ - φησί γάρ· "Σύ, Πάτερ, ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ ἐν αὐτοῖς καί αὐτοί ἐν ἐμοί κἀγώ, Πάτερ ἐν σοί, ἵνα ἕν ὦμεν", καί τό Πνεῦμα ὡσαύτως· "Ἐνοικήσω, φησίν, ἐν αὐτοῖς καί ἐμπεριπατήσω. Ἐγώ καί ὁ Πατήρ ἐλευσόμεθα καί μονήν παρ᾿ αὐτῷ ποιήσομεν", διά τοῦ Πνεύματος δηλονότι, ὡς ὁ Παῦλος φησι· "Τό γάρ Πνεῦμα ὁ Κύριος ἐστιν". Εἰ οὖν ὁ Κύριος τό Πνεῦμα ἐστι καί ὁ Πατήρ ἐν αὐτῷ καί αὐτό ἐν ἡμῖν, ὡσαύτως δέ πάλιν ἡμεῖς ἐν αὐτῷ, καί αὐτό μετά Θεοῦ καί Πατρός καί ὁ Θεός ἐν αὐτῷ.

(418) Καί εἰ χρή ἀκριβέστερόν τι εἰπεῖν, ὅπερ τό ἕν ἐστι, τοῦτο καί τά δύο. Τά τρία γάρ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ εἰσι καί εἰς μίαν νοοῦνται οὐσίαν καί φύσιν καί βασιλείαν. Εἴ τι οὖν τό ἕν ὀνομάζεται, τοῦτο κατά φύσιν καί εἰς τά λοιπά θεωρεῖται, χωρίς τοῦ "Πατήρ" δηλαδή καί "Υἱός" καί "Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα", ἤτοι τοῦ "γεννᾶν" ἐκτός καί "γεννᾶσθαι" καί "ἐκπορεύεσθαι"· μόνα γάρ ταῦτα τῇ Ἁγίᾳ Τριάδι φυσικῶς τε καί κατ᾿ ἰδιότητα ἀναντιρρήτως παρέπεται. Ἀλλοίωσιν δέ ἤ ἀναποδισμόν ἤ τήν τῶν