{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/210/2100133.htm","path":"chr/ecf/210/2100133.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/210/2100133.htm","text":"St. Ambrose shows from the Scriptures that the Name of the Three Divine Persons is one, and first the unity of the Name of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, inasmuch as each is called Paraclete and Truth.\n132. Who, then, would dare to deny the oneness of Name, when he sees the oneness of the working. But why should I maintain the unity of the Name by arguments, when there is the plain testimony of the Divine Voice that the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one? For it is written: \u201cGo, baptize all nations in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of p. 111 the Holy Spirit.\u201d 956 He said, \u201cin the Name,\u201d not \u201cin the Names.\u201d So, then, the Name of the Father is not one, that of the Son another, and that of the Holy Spirit another, for God is one; the Names are not more than one, for there are not two Gods, or three Gods.\n132. And that He might reveal that the Godhead is one and the Majesty one, because the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one, and the Son did not come in one Name and the Holy Spirit in another, the Lord Himself said: \u201cI am come in My Father\u2019s Name, and ye did not receive Me, if another shall come in his own name ye will receive him.\u201d 957\n133. And Scripture makes clear that that which is the Father\u2019s Name, the same is also that of the Son, for the Lord said in Exodus: \u201cI will go before thee in My Name, and will call by My Name the Lord before thee.\u201d 958 So, then, the Lord said that He would call the Lord by His Name. The Lord, then, is the Name of the Father and of the Son.\n134. But since the Name of the Father and of the Son is one, learn that the same is the Name of the Holy Spirit also, since the Holy Spirit came in the Name of the Son, as it is written: \u201cBut the Paraclete, even the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things.\u201d 959 But He Who came in the Name of the Son came also certainly in the Name of the Father, for the Name of the Father and of the Son is one. Thus it comes to pass that the Name of the Father and of the Son is also that of the Holy Spirit. For there is no other Name given under heaven wherein we must be saved. 960\n155. At the same time He showed that the oneness of the Divine Name must be taught, not the difference, since Christ came in the oneness of the Name, but Antichrist will come in his own name, as it is written: \u201cI am come in My Father\u2019s Name, and ye did not receive Me, if another shall come in his own name, ye will receive him.\u201d 961\n156. We are, then, clearly taught by these passages that there is no difference of Name in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and that that which is the Name of the Father is also the Name of the Son, and likewise that which is the Name of the Son is also that of the Holy Spirit, when the Son also is called Paraclete, as is the Holy Spirit. And therefore does the Lord Jesus say in the Gospel: \u201cI will ask My Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth.\u201d 962 And He said well \u201canother,\u201d that you might not suppose that the Son is also the Spirit, for oneness is of the Name, not a Sabellian confusion of the Son and of the Spirit. 963\n157. So, then, the Son is one Paraclete, the Holy Spirit another Paraclete; for John called the Son a Paraclete, as you find: \u201cIf any man sin, we have a Paraclete [Advocate] with the Father, Jesus Christ.\u201d 964 So in like manner as there is a oneness of name, so, too, is there a oneness of power, for where the Paraclete Spirit is, there is also the Son.\n158. For as the Lord says in this place that the Spirit will be forever with the faithful, so, too, does He elsewhere show that He will Himself be forever with the apostles, saying: \u201cLo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.\u201d 965 Therefore the Son and the Spirit are one, the Name of the Trinity is one, and the Presence one and indivisible.\n159. But as we show that the Son is called the Paraclete, so, too, do we show that the Spirit is called the Truth. Christ is the Truth, the Spirit is the Truth, for you find in John\u2019s epistle: \u201cFor the Spirit is Truth.\u201d 966 Not only, then, is the Spirit called the Spirit of Truth, but also the Truth, as the Son is also declared to be the Truth, Who says: \u201cI am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.\u201d 967\nS. Matt. xxviii. 19.\n111:957\nS. John v. 43.\n111:958 111:959\nS. John xiv. 26.\n111:960 111:961\nS. John xiv. 16.\n111:963\nThe Sabellians, anxious to maintain the Unity of God, denied the distinction of Persons, identifying the Father and the Son. See D. Chr. B. III. 568, and Blunt, Dict. of Sects, etc., sub voc.\n111:964 111:965\nS. Matt. xxviii. 20.\n111:966 111:967\nS. John xiv. 6.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. X: Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons.: Chapter XIII. St. Ambrose shows from the Scriptures that the Name of the Three Divine Persons is one, and first the unity of the Name of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, inasmuch as each is called Paraclete and Truth.","type":"page"}