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5. For even of the Holy Spirit, of whom it is not said, "He
emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant;" yet the
Lord Himself says, "Howbeit, when He the Spirit of Truth is
come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of
Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear that shall He speak; and He
will show you things to come. He shall glorify me; for He shall
receive of mine, and shall show it unto you." And except He had
immediately gone on to say after this, "All things that the Father
hath are mine; therefore said I, that He shall take of mine, and
shall show it unto you;" it might, perhaps, have been believed that
the Holy Spirit was so born of Christ, as Christ is of the
Father. Since He had said of Himself, "My doctrine is not mine,
but His that sent me;" but of the Holy Spirit," For He shall
not speak of Himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall He
speak;" and, "For He shall receive of mine, and shall show it
unto you." But because He has rendered the reason why He said,
"He shall receive of mine" (for He says, "All things that the
Father hath are mine; therefore said I, that He shall take of mine
"); it remains that the Holy Spirit be understood to have of that
which is the Father's, as the Son also hath. And how can this be,
unless according to that which we have said above, "But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even
the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, He shall
testify of me"? He is said, therefore, not to speak of Himself,
in that He proceedeth from the Father; and as it does not follow that
the Son is less because He said, "The Son can do nothing of
Himself, but what He seeth the Father do" (for He has not said
this according to the form of a servant, but according to the form of
God, as we have already shown, and these words do not set Him forth
as less than, but as of the Father), so it is not brought to pass
that the Holy Spirit is less, because it is said of Him, "For He
shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall
He speak;" for the words belong to Him as proceeding from the
Father. But whereas both the Son is of the Father, and the Holy
Spirit proceeds from the Father, why both are not called sons, and
both not said to be begotten, but the former is called the one
only-begotten Son, and the latter, viz. the Holy Spirit, neither
son nor begotten, because if begotten, then certainly a son, we will
discuss in another place, if God shall grant, and so far as He shall
grant.
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