"shall I go from Thy omnipresent Spirit? " Only God is omniscient, and says St. Paul: " The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." Only God is omnipotent, and, prays the Royal Prophet: " Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created." To have a temple of worship is God's exclusive prerogative, but, says St. Paul: " Know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit? " To " speak by the mouth of His holy prophet " was surely peculiar to the Lord God of Israel, but St. Peter says, " those holy men of God spoke inspired by the Holy Ghost." Finally, nothing could be plainer than St. Peter's assertion of this truth when, having detected the duplicity of Ananias, he said to him: "Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost? Thou hast not Ked to men, but to God." What, therefore, of the Arian argument? Certainly, when it is a question of the exercise of authority, the sender is necessarily superior to the person sent, but there is another manner of sending forth, by production, namely, as when the sun puts forth its rays and the trees their blossoms and fruit, and here is involved no inequality, for rays and flowers and fruit are by nature identical with the principle from which they emanate. Such, in some sort, is the emanation of the Son from the Father, and of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son. But here again the heretics sought occasion to attack the divinity of the third person, arguing that as God produces by generation and creation only, therefore the Holy
