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Handout #70 |
The Spirit is God |
| The Council of Constantinople(381)
What titles which belong to God are not applied to the Spirit? ... They who say and teach these things, and moreover call him another Paraclete in the sense of another God (John 14.:16), who know that blasphemy against him along cannot be forgiven (Matt. 12:3 1), and who branded with such fearful infamy Ananius and Sapphira for having lied to the Holy Spirit, what do you think of these men? Do they proclaim the Spirit of God or something else? Now really you must be extraordinarily dull and far from the Spirit if you have any doubt about this and need someone to teach you. Gregory of Nazianzus, Fifth Theological Oration, 30,29. |
