IX.  The Holy Ghost, then, always existed, and exists, and always will exist.  He neither had a beginning, nor will He have an end; but He was everlastingly ranged with and numbered with the Father and the Son.  For it was not ever fitting that either the Son should be wanting to the Father, or the Spirit to the Son.  For then Deity would be shorn of Its Glory in its greatest respect, for It would seem to have arrived at the consummation of perfection as if by an afterthought.  Therefore He was ever being partaken, but not partaking; perfecting, not being perfected; sanctifying, not being sanctified; deifying, not being deified; Himself ever the same with Himself, and with Those with Whom He is ranged; invisible, eternal, incomprehensible, unchangeable, without quality, without quantity, without form, impalpable, self-moving, eternally moving, with free-will, self-powerful, All-powerful (even though all that is of the Spirit is referable to the First Cause, just as is all that is of the Only-begotten); Life and Lifegiver; Light and Lightgiver; absolute Good, and Spring of Goodness; the Right, the Princely Spirit; the Lord, the Sender, the Separator; Builder of His own Temple; leading, working as He wills; distributing His own Gifts; the Spirit of Adoption, of Truth, of Wisdom, of Understanding, of Knowledge, of Godliness, of Counsel, of Fear (which are ascribed to Him42    i.e., by Isaiah.) by Whom the Father is known and the Son is glorified; and by Whom alone He is known; one class, one service, worship, power, perfection, sanctification.  Why make a long discourse of it?  All that the Father hath the Son hath also, except the being Unbegotten; and all that the Son hath the Spirit hath also, except the Generation.  And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.43    Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts xiii. 2, Rom. iv. 17, xv. 16, 19, 1 Cor. ii. 10, vi. 19, viii. 2, 2 Cor. iii. 1, 6, xiii. 4, 2 Thess. iii. 5, 1 Tim. vi. 10, Heb. ix. 14.

Θʹ. Τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἦν μὲν ἀεὶ, καὶ ἔστι, καὶ ἔσται, οὔτε ἀρξάμενον, οὔτε παυσόμενον, ἀλλ' ἀεὶ Πατρὶ καὶ Υἱῷ συντεταγμένον, καὶ συναριθμούμενον: οὐδὲ γὰρ ἔπρεπεν ἐλλείπειν ποτὲ, ἢ Υἱὸν Πατρὶ, ἢ Πνεῦμα Υἱῷ. Τῷ μεγίστῳ γὰρ ἂν ἦν ἄδοξος ἡ θεότης, ὥσπερ ἐκ μεταμελείας ἐλθοῦσα εἰς συμπλήρωσιν τελειότητος. Ἦν οὖν ἀεὶ μεταληπτὸν, οὐ μεταληπτικόν: τελειοῦν, οὐ τελειούμενον: πληροῦν, οὐ πληρούμενον: ἁγιάζον, οὐχ ἁγιαζόμενον: θεοῦν, οὐ θεούμενον: αὐτὸ ἑαυτῷ ταυτὸν ἀεὶ, καὶ οἷς συντέτακται: ἀόρατον, ἄχρονον, ἀχώρητον, ἀναλλοίωτον, ἄποιον, ἄποσον, ἀνείδεον, ἀναφὲς, αὐτοκίνητον, ἀεικίνητον, αὐτεξούσιον, αὐτοδύναμον, παντοδύναμον (εἰ καὶ πρὸς τὴν πρώτην αἰτίαν, ὥσπερ τὰ τοῦ Μονογενοῦς ἅπαντα, οὕτω δὴ καὶ τὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος ἀναπέμπεται): ζωὴ, καὶ ζωοποιόν: φῶς, καὶ χορηγὸν φωτός: αὐτοαγαθὸν, καὶ πηγὴ ἀγαθότητος: Πνεῦμα εὐθὲς, ἡγεμονικὸν, κύριον, ἀποστέλλον, ἀφορίζον, ναοποιοῦν ἑαυτῷ, ὁδηγοῦν, ἐνεργοῦν ὡς βούλεται, διαιροῦν χαρίσματα: Πνεῦμα υἱοθεσίας, ἀληθείας, σοφίας, συνέσεως, γνώσεως, εὐσεβείας, βουλῆς, ἰσχύος, φόβου, τῶν ἀπηριθμημένων: δι' οὗ Πατὴρ γινώσκεται, καὶ Υἱὸς δοξάζεται, καὶ παρ' ὧν μόνων γινώσκεται, μία σύνταξις, λατρεία μία, προσκύνησις, δύναμις, τελειότης, ἁγιασμός. Τί μοι μακρολογεῖν; Πάντα ὅσα ὁ Πατὴρ, τοῦ Υἱοῦ, πλὴν τῆς ἀγεννησίας. Πάντα ὅσα ὁ Υἱὸς, τοῦ Πνεύματος, πλὴν τῆς γεννήσεως. Ταῦτα δὲ οὐκ οὐσίας ἀφορίζει, κατά γε τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον, περὶ οὐσίαν δὲ ἀφορίζεται.