4. This the Apostle knows when he says: ‘All these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally, even as he will’; and a little farther on: ‘In one Spirit were we all baptized into one body ... and were all made to drink of one Spirit.’

Once more, if we must take our knowledge of the Spirit from the Son, then with propriety we may put forward proofs which derive from him. The Son is everywhere; for he is in the Father and the Father in him. He controls and contains all things; and it is written: ‘In him all things consist, whether seen or unseen, and he is before all things.’ But the creatures are in the places which have been assigned to them: sun, moon, and the other lights in the firmament, angels in heaven and men upon the earth. But if the Son is not a creature, because he is not in places assigned to him, but is in the Father, and because he is everywhere even while he is outside all things; it follows that the Spirit cannot be a creature, for he is not in places assigned to him, but fills all things and yet is outside all things. Thus it is written: ‘The Spirit of the Lord hath filled the world.’ And David sings, ‘Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?’, inasmuch as he is not in any place, but outside all things and in the Son, as the Son is in the Father. Therefore, as we have proved, he is not a creature.

Over and above these things, the following considerations will confirm the condemnation of the Arian heresy, and once more make plain from the Son what we know concerning the Spirit. The Son, like the Father, is creator; for he says: ‘What things I see the Father doing, these things I also do.’ ‘All things’, indeed, ‘were made through him, and without him was not anything made.’ But if the Son, being, like the Father, creator, is not a creature; and if, because all things were created through him, he does not belong to things created: then, clearly, neither is the Spirit a creature. For it is written concerning him in the one hundred and third Psalm: ‘Thou shalt take away their spirit, and they shall die and return to their dust. Thou shalt put forth thy Spirit, and they shall be created, and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.’

Καὶ τοῦτο οἶδεν ὁ Ἀπόστολος λέγων· «Ταῦτα δὲ πάντα ἐνεργεῖ τὸ ἓν καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ Πνεῦμα, διαιροῦν ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ καθὼς βούλεται·» καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· «Ἐν ἑνὶ Πνεύματι ἡμεῖς πάντες εἰς ἓν σῶμα ἐβαπτίσθημεν, καὶ πάντες ἓν Πνεῦμα ἐποτίσθημεν·» καὶ πάλιν, ἐπειδὴ ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ δεῖ λαμβάνειν τὴν περὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος γνῶσιν, πρέπον ἂν εἴη ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς ἀποδείξεις προφέρειν. Πανταχοῦ τοίνυν ἐστὶν ὁ Υἱὸς, ἐν Πατρὶ γὰρ ὢν, καὶ τοῦ Πατρὸς ὄντος ἐν αὐτῷ. Πάντα γὰρ κρατεῖ καὶ συνέχει, καὶ γέγραπται, ὅτι «Ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκε τὰ πάντα» εἴτε ὁρατὰ εἴτε ἀόρατα, «καὶ αὐτός ἐστι πρὸ πάντων.» Τὰ δὲ κτίσματα ἐν μεμερισμένοις τόποις ἐστίν· ἥλιος μὲν καὶ σελήνη καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι φωστῆρες ἐν τῷ στερεώ ματι, ἐν οὐρανῷ δὲ ἄγγελοι, καὶ ἄνθρωποι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. Εἰ δὲ ὁ Υἱὸς, οὐκ ὢν ἐν μεμερισμένοις τόποις, ἀλλ' ἐν Πατρὶ ὢν, πανταχοῦ ἐστι, καὶ ἔξω τῶν πάντων ὢν, οὐκ ἔστι κτίσμα, ἀκολούθως οὐκ ἂν εἴη οὐδὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα κτίσμα, μὴ ὂν ἐν μεμερισμένοις τόποις, ἀλλὰ πάντα πληροῦν καὶ ἔξω τῶν πάντων ὄν. Οὕτω γὰρ καὶ γέγραπται· «Πνεῦμα Κυρίου πεπλήρωκε τὴν οἰκουμένην.» Καὶ ∆αβὶδ ψάλλει· «Ποῦ πορευθῶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Πνεύματός σου,» ὡς μὴ ὄντος αὐ τοῦ ἐν τόπῳ, ἀλλ' ἔξω μὲν τῶν πάντων, ἐν δὲ τῷ Υἱῷ ὄντος, ὥς ἐστι καὶ ὁ Υἱὸς ἐν τῷ Πατρί. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο γὰρ οὐδ' αὐτὸ κτίσμα ἐστὶν, ὥσπερ δέδεικται. Πρὸς πᾶσι δὲ τούτοις ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐκ τούτου κατα γνωσθήσεται μὲν ἡ Ἀρειανὴ αἵρεσις, ἐπιγνωσθήσε ται δὲ πάλιν ἐκ τοῦ Υἱοῦ ἡ περὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος γνῶσις. Κτίστης τοίνυν ἐστὶν ὁ Υἱὸς ὡς ὁ Πατήρ· «Ἃ γὰρ βλέπω,» φησὶ, «τὸν Πατέρα ποιοῦντα, ταῦτα κἀγὼ ποιῶ.» «Πάντα» γοῦν «δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν.» Εἰ δὲ, κτίστης ὢν, ὡς ὁ Πατὴρ, ὁ Υἱὸς, οὐκ ἔστι κτίσμα· καὶ εἰ, ὅτι δι' αὐτοῦ κτίζεται τὰ πάντα, οὐκ ἔστι τῶν κτιζομένων· δηλονότι οὐδὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα κτίσμα ἐστίν· ἐπειδὴ καὶ περὶ αὐτοῦ γέγραπται ἐν τῷ ἑκα τοστῷ τρίτῳ ψαλμῷ· «Ἀντανελεῖς τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐκλείψουσι, καὶ εἰς τὸν χοῦν αὐτῶν ἐπιστρέ ψουσιν· ἐξαποστελεῖς τὸ Πνεῦμά σου, καὶ κτισθήσονται, καὶ ἀνακαινιεῖς τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς.»