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7. But what was the cause, O Thou true-speaking Light? Unto
Thee do I lift up my heart, let it not teach me vain things;
disperse its darkness, and tell me, I beseech Thee, by our mother
charity, tell me, I beseech Thee, the reason why, after the
mention of heaven, and of the earth invisible and formless, and
darkness upon the deep, Thy Scripture should then at length mention
Thy Spirit? Was it because it was meet that it should be spoken of
Him that He was "borne over," and this could not be said, unless
that were first mentioned "over" which Thy Spirit may be understood
to have been "borne?" For neither was He "borne over" the
Father, nor the Son, nor could it rightly be said that He was
"borne over" if He were "borne over" nothing. That, therefore,
was first to be spoken of" over" which He might be "borne; "and
then He, whom it was not meet to mention otherwise than as having been
"borne." Why, then, was it not meet that it should otherwise be
mentioned of Him, than as having been "borne over?"
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