5. As it is thus written, it is clear that the Spirit is not a creature, but takes part in the act of creation. The Father creates all things through the Word in the Spirit; for where the Word is, there is the Spirit also, and the things which are created through the Word have their vital strength out of the Spirit from the Word. Thus it is written in the thirty-second Psalm: ‘By the Word of the Lord the heavens were established, and by the Spirit of his mouth is all their power.’

So clearly is the Spirit indivisible from the Son that what is now to be said leaves no room for doubt. When the Word came upon the prophet, it was in the Spirit that the prophet used to speak the things he received from the Word. Thus it is written in the Acts, when Peter says: ‘Brethren, it was needful that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spake before.’ In Zechariah it is written, when the Word comes upon him: ‘But receive my words and my statutes, which I charge in my Spirit to the prophets.’ And when, a little farther on, he rebuked the people, he said: ‘They made their hearts to be disobedient, lest they should hear my law and the words which the Lord of hosts has sent by his Spirit in the hands of the prophets of old.’ And when Christ spoke in Paul—as Paul himself said, ‘Seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me’—it was, none the less, the Spirit that he had bestowing upon him the power of speech. For he writes: ‘according to the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ upon me.’ Again, when Christ spoke in him, he said: ‘Save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.’ The Spirit is not outside the Word, but, being in the Word, through him is in God. And so the spiritual gifts are given in the Triad. For, as he writes to the Corinthians, in their distribution there is the same Spirit and the same Lord and the same God, ‘Who worketh all things in all’. For the Father himself through the Word in the Spirit works and gives all things.

Τούτου δὲ οὕτως γεγραμμένου, δῆλόν ἐστιν, ὡς οὐκ ἔστι κτίσμα τὸ Πνεῦμα, ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ κτίζειν ἐστίν· ὁ γὰρ Πατὴρ διὰ τοῦ Λόγου ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι κτίζει τὰ πάντα, ἐπεὶ ἔνθα ὁ Λόγος, ἐκεῖ καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα· καὶ τὰ διὰ τοῦ Λόγου κτιζόμενα ἔχει ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος παρὰ τοῦ Λόγου τὴν τοῦ εἶναι ἰσχύν. Οὕτω γὰρ γέγραπται ἐν τῷ τριακοστῷ δευ τέρῳ ψαλμῷ· «Τῷ Λόγῳ Κυρίου οἱ οὐρανοὶ ἐστερεώθησαν, καὶ τῷ Πνεύματι τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμις αὐτῶν.» Ἀμέλει οὕτως ἐστὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα ἀδιαίρετον πρὸς τὸν Υἱὸν, ὡς μὴ ἀμφιβάλλειν ἐκ τοῦ λεγομένου. Ὅτε γὰρ ὁ Λόγος ἐγίγνετο πρὸς τὸν προφήτην, τὰ παρὰ τοῦ Λόγου ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι ἐλάλει ὁ προφήτης. Οὕτω καὶ γέγρα πται ἐν μὲν ταῖς Πράξεσι τοῦ Πέτρου λέγοντος· «Ἄνδρες ἀδελφοὶ, ἔδει πληρωθῆναι τὴν Γραφὴν, ἣν προεῖπε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον·» ἐν δὲ τῷ Ζαχαρίᾳ, τοῦ Λόγου γενομένου πρὸς αὐτὸν, γέγραπται· «Πλὴν τοὺς λόγους μου καὶ τὰ νόμιμά μου δέχεσθε, ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ἐν Πνεύματί μου τοῖς προφή ταις.» Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα, αἰτιώμενος τὸν λαὸν, ἔλεγε· «Τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῶν ἔταξαν ἀπειθῆ τοῦ μὴ εἰσακούειν τοὺς νόμους μου, καὶ τοὺς λόγους, οὓς ἐξαπέστειλε Κύριος παντοκράτωρ ἐν Πνεύματι αὐ τοῦ, ἐν χερσὶ τῶν προφητῶν τῶν ἔμπροσθεν.» Καὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ δὲ λαλοῦντος ἐν τῷ Παύλῳ, ὡς αὐ τὸς εἶπεν· «Εἰ δοκιμὴν ζητεῖτε τοῦ ἐν ἐμοὶ λαλοῦν τος Χριστοῦ;» οὐδὲν ἧττον τὸ Πνεῦμα εἶχεν ἐπιχο ρηγοῦν αὐτῷ τὸ λαλεῖν. Οὕτω γὰρ αὐτὸς γράφει· «Κατὰ τὴν ἐπιχορηγίαν τοῦ Πνεύματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς ἐμέ.» Πάλιν τε τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ λαλοῦντος, ἔλεγε· «Πλὴν ὅτι τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον κατὰ πόλιν διαμαρτυρεῖταί μοι, λέγον, ὅτι δεσμὰ καὶ θλίψεις με μένουσιν.» Οὐ γὰρ ἐκτός ἐστι τοῦ Λόγου τὸ Πνεῦμα, ἀλλὰ, ἐν τῷ Λόγῳ ὂν, ἐν τῷ Θεῷ δι' αὐ τοῦ ἐστιν· ὥστε τὰ χαρίσματα ἐν τῇ Τριάδι δίδοσθαι. Ἐν γὰρ τῇ τούτων διαιρέσει, ὡς Κορινθίοις γράφει, τὸ αὐτὸ Πνεῦμά ἐστι καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς Κύριος, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς Θεός ἐστιν ὁ ἐνεργῶν τὰ πάντα ἐν πᾶσιν. Αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ διὰ τοῦ Λόγου ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι ἐνεργεῖ καὶ δίδωσι τὰ πάντα.