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54. Now of the rest of the Powers each is believed to be in a
circumscribed place. The angel who stood by Cornelius was not at one
and the same moment with Philip; nor yet did the angel who spoke with
Zacharias from the altar at the same time occupy his own pose in
heaven. But the Spirit is believed to have been operating at the
saint time in Habakkuk and in Daniel at Babylon, and to have been at
the prison with Jeremiah, and with Ezekiel at the Chebar. For the
Spirit of the Lord filleth the world, and "whither shall I go from
thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" And, in
the words of the Prophet, "For I am with you, saith the Lord
... and my spirit remaineth among you." But what nature is it
becoming to assign to Him who is omnipresent, and exists together with
God? The nature which is all-embracing, or one which is confined to
particular places, like that which our argument shews the nature of
angels to be? No one would so say. Shall we not then highly exalt
Him who is in His nature divine, in His greatness infinite, in His
operations powerful, in the blessings He confers, good? Shall we
not give Him glory? And I understand glory to mean nothing else than
the enumeration of the wonders which are His own. It follows then
that either we are forbidden by our antagonists even to mention the good
things which flow to us from Him. or on the other hand that the mere
recapitulation of His attributes is the fullest possible attribution of
glory. For not even in the case of the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ and of the Only begotten Son, are we capable of giving
Them glory otherwise than by recounting, to the extent of our powers,
all the wonders that belong to Them.
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