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13. Neither ought it to influence us since we have said that the
Holy Spirit is so called relatively, not the Trinity itself, but
He who is in the Trinity that the designation of Him to whom He is
referred, does not seem to answer in turn to His designation. For we
cannot, as we say the servant of a master, and the master of a
servant, the son of a father and the father of a son, so also say here
because these things are said relatively. For we speak of the Holy
Spirit of the Father; but, on the other hand, we do not speak of
the Father of the Holy Spirit, test the Holy Spirit should be
understood to be His Son. So also we speak of the Holy Spirit of
the Son; but we do not speak of the Son of the Holy Spirit, lest
the Holy Spirit be understood to be His Father. For it is the case
in many relatives, that no designation is to be found by which those
things which bear relation to each other may [in name] mutually
correspond to each other. For what is more clearly spoken relatively
than the word earnest? Since it is referred to that of which it is an
earnest, and an earnest is always an earnest of something. Can we
then, as we say, the earnest of the Father and of the Son, say in
turn, the Father of the earnest or the Son of the earnest? But, on
the other hand, when we say the gift of the Father and of the Son,
we cannot indeed say the Father of the gift, or the Son of the gift;
but that these may correspond mutually to each other, we say the gift
of the giver and the giver of the gift; because here a word in use may
be found, there it cannot.
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