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In this last article St. Thomas shows that a divine
person is properly sent by that person from whom He
proceeds. Thus the Holy Ghost is sent by the Father
and the Son, and the Son is sent by the Father. But
in a less proper sense we may say that the Son is sent by
the Holy Ghost inasmuch as the person sending is
understood as the principle not of the person who is sent
but of the effect for which the mission takes place. Thus
we read in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, "And
was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary,
and was made man."[694]
Thus we conclude the treatise of the Trinity with a
consideration of the manifestation of this mystery ad
extra. By way of conclusion we may briefly speak of the
importance of this supreme mystery, having in mind
particularly the relation of the mystery to the two orders
of nature and grace and to the life of grace.
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