{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/210/2100139.htm","path":"chr/ecf/210/2100139.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/210/2100139.htm","text":"The Spirit is the Lord and Power; and in this is not inferior to the Father and the Son.\n17. Above, you read that \u201cthe Lord blessed him, and the Spirit of the Lord began to go with him.\u201d 1027 Farther on it is said: \u201cAnd the Spirit of the Lord came upon him.\u201d 1028 Again he says: \u201cIf I be shaven, my strength will depart from me.\u201d 1029 After he was shaven, see what the Scripture says: \u201cThe Lord,\u201d he says, \u201cdeparted from him.\u201d 1030\n18. You see, then, that He Who went with him, Himself departed from him. The Same is, then, the Lord, Who is the Spirit of the Lord, that is, he called the Spirit of God, Lord, as also the Apostle says: \u201cThe Lord is the Spirit, now where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.\u201d You find, then, the Holy Spirit called the Lord; for the Holy Spirit and the Son are not one Person [unus] but one Substance [unum].\n19. In this place he used the word Power, and implied the Spirit. For as the Father is Power, so, too, the Son is Power, and the Holy Spirit is Power. Of the Son you have read that Christ is \u201cthe Power of God and the Wisdom of God.\u201d 1031 We read, too, that the Father is Power, as it is written: \u201cYe shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power of God.\u201d 1032 He certainly named the Father Power, at Whose right hand the Son sits, as you read: \u201cThe Lord said unto My Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand.\u201d 1033 And the Lord Himself named the Holy Spirit Power, when He said: \u201cYe shall receive Power when the Holy Spirit cometh upon you.\u201d 1034\nS. Matt. xxvi. 64.\n117:1033 117:1034","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. X: Dogmatic...","type":"page"}