The Spirit is the Ointment of Christ Because He is called the oil of gladness, the joining together of many graces giving a sweet fragrance. God the Almighty Father anointed Him the Prince of priests, [Who was] both according to the Law anointed in the body, and in truth was full with the virtue of the Holy Spirit from the Father above the Law. This is the oil of gladness, […]
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Novatian: On the Trinity II
The Holy Spirit This Holy Spirit the Lord Christ calls at one time “the Paraclete,” at another pronounces to be the “Spirit of truth.” And He is not new in the Gospel, nor yet even newly given; … Assuredly in the Spirit there are different kinds of offices, because in the times there is a different order of occasions; and yet, on this account, He who discharges these offices is […]
Read moreAthenagoras: On the Trinity
We acknowledge one God, uncreated, eternal, invisible, impassable, incomprehensible, illimitable, who is apprehended by the understanding only and the reason, who is encompassed by light, and beauty, and spirit, and power ineffable, by whom the universe has been created through His Logos, and set in order, and is kept in being… The Son of God is the Logos of the Father, in idea and in operation; for after the pattern […]
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