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9 Jun 2022

Word Of The Spirit

Sed dicis: Apostolus duas tantum personas in operum suorum volumine confitetur, sicut ad Corinthios loquitur: Paulus vocatus Apostolus Iesu Christi per voluntatem Dei, et ad Galatas: Paulus Apostolus non ab hominibus neque per hominem, sed per Iesum Christum et Deum Patrem, qui suscitavit eum a mortuis, et iterum: unus Deus Pater, ex quo omnia et nos in ipso et unus Dominus Iesus Christus, per quem omnia et nos per ipsum. Secundum haec dicis nullam de spiritu sancto fieri mentionem ut breviter dicamus, oblitus es, quod Apostolus Spiritu Sancto plenus haec populis ipso inspirante de Patre Filioque praedicabat. Loquenti itaque de Patris ac Filii operatione et ille non deerat, qui loquenda dictabat, secundum illud: et nemo dicit dominum Iesum nisi in Spiritu Sancto. Qui ergo crediturus vel confessurus vel praedicaturus est Christum, vides, quod ante in se habiturus est Spiritum Sanctum. Non ergo hoc oneret fidem tuam, quod interdum sine commemoratione Spiritus Sancti Patris mentio habetur ac Filii. Nam saepe suppresso Patris nomine Filii et Spiritus Sancti operatio praedicatur. Ait sanctus Ananias ad Paulum: Saule frater, Dominus misit me Iesus, qui apparuit tibi in via, qua veneiebas, ut videas et replearis Spiritu Sancto. Aperte hic duarum est conexio personarum. Ecce Paulus a Christo caecatus arguitur, Spiritu Sancto inluminatus impletur et nulla hic mentio Patris inseritur.

Sanctus Faustus Reiensis, De Spiritu Sancto, Liber II

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But you say the Apostle confesses only two persons in the collection of his works, as in the letter to the Corinthians, saying, 'Paul called an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,' 1 and to the Galatians: 'Paul, an Apostle, not by men nor through men, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him up from the dead.' 2 And again: 'One God the Father through whom are all things and we in Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things and we through Him.' 3 According to these passages in which you say there is no mention of the Holy Spirit, let us briefly say that you have forgotten that the Apostle, full of the Holy Spirit breathed in by the Father and Son, preached these things to the people. Thus in speaking of the work of the Father and the Son, He is not absent who composes the words to be spoken, according to: 'And no one says Lord Jesus unless in the Holy Spirit.' 4 He who therefore would believe or confess or preach Christ, do see, must have beforehand the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Let this, then, not burden your faith, that the Holy Spirit is without commemoration while the Father and Son are spoken. For often the name of the Father is omitted in the speaking of the work of Son and the Spirit. The blessed Ananias said to Paul, 'Brother Paul, the Lord Jesus sent me, He who appeared to you on the way, on which you came, that you might see and be full of the Holy Spirit.' 5 Two of the persons are openly brought into connection. Behold, the blind Paul is admonished by Christ, and filled by the Holy Spirit he is illuminated, and there is no mention of the Father.

Saint Faustus of Riez, On The Holy Spirit, Book 2

1 1 Cor 1.1
2 Gal 1.1
3 Ephes 4.6
4 1 Cor 12.3
5 Acts 9.7

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