{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010272.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010272.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010272.htm","text":"Chapter VI.\u2014Why the Holy Ghost Should Have Been Mentioned After the Mention of Heaven and Earth.\n7. But what was the cause, O Thou true-speaking Light? Unto Thee do I lift up my heart, let it not teach me vain things; disperse its darkness, and tell me, I beseech Thee, by our mother charity, tell me, I beseech Thee, the reason why, after the mention of heaven, and of the earth invisible and formless, and darkness upon the deep, Thy Scripture should then at length mention Thy Spirit? Was it because it was meet that it should be spoken of Him that He was \u201cborne over,\u201d and this could not be said, unless that were first mentioned \u201cover\u201d which Thy Spirit may be understood to have been \u201cborne?\u201d For neither was He \u201cborne over\u201d p. 192 the Father, nor the Son, nor could it rightly be said that He was \u201cborne over\u201d if He were \u201cborne over\u201d nothing. That, therefore, was first to be spoken of \u201cover\u201d which He might be \u201cborne;\u201d and then He, whom it was not meet to mention otherwise than as having been \u201cborne.\u201d Why, then, was it not meet that it should otherwise be mentioned of Him, than as having been \u201cborne over?\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}