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Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

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creature is sanctified; it is the Spirit that sanctifies. 2524 Whether you name angels, archangels,<br />

or all the heavenly powers, they receive their sanctification through the Spirit, but the Spirit<br />

Himself has His holiness by nature, not received by favour, but essentially His; whence He<br />

has received the distinctive name of Holy. What then is by nature holy, as the Father is by<br />

nature holy, <strong>and</strong> the Son by nature holy, we do not ourselves allow to be separated <strong>and</strong><br />

severed from the divine <strong>and</strong> blessed Trinity, nor accept those who rashly reckon it as part<br />

of creation. Let this short summary be sufficient for you, my pious friends. From little<br />

seeds, with the co-operation of the Holy Ghost, you will reap the fuller crop of piety. “Give<br />

instruction to a wise man <strong>and</strong> he will be yet wiser.” 2525 I will put off fuller demonstration<br />

till we meet. When we do, it will be possible for me to answer objections, to give you fuller<br />

proofs from Scripture, <strong>and</strong> to confirm all the sound rule of faith. For the present pardon<br />

my brevity. I should not have written at all had I not thought it a greater injury to you to<br />

refuse your request altogether than to grant it in part.<br />

2524 Rom. xv. 16.<br />

2525 Prov. ix. 9.<br />

To Eupaterius <strong>and</strong> his daughter.<br />

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