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138 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
the Father and the Son, and it was thought that the union
would he everlasting, but such was not the case, for after they
left the Council, they again (ch. ix, n. 31) returned to their vomit,
at the instigation of Mark of Ephesus. I now speak of these
Greeks who were under the obedience of the Eastern Patriarchs,
for the others who were not subject to them, remained united in
Faith to the Roman Church.
IT IS PROVED THAT THE HOLY GHOST PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER
AND THE SON.
2. It is proved by the words of St. John :
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" When
the Para
clete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit
of Truth who proceedeth from the Father" (John, xv, 16). This
text not only proves the dogma decided by the Council of Con
stantinople against the Arians and Macedonians, that the Holy
Ghost proceeds from the Father And in the ("
Holy Ghost the
Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father") ; but
also that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son, as is shown by
the words :
" Whom 1 will send ;" you
is repeated in St. John in other places :
and the same expression
" For
if I go not, the
Paraclete will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to
you" (John, xvi, 7). "But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom
the Father will send in my name" (John, xiv, 26). In the
Divinity, a Person is not spoken of as sent, unless by another
Person from whom he proceeds. The Father, as he is the origin
of the is Divinity, never spoken of in the Scriptures as being
sent. The Son, as he proceeds from the Father alone, is said
to be sent, but it is never thus said of the Holy Ghost :
" As
the Father living, sent me, &c., God sent his Son, made from a
woman, &c." When, therefore, the Holy Ghost,
is said to be
sent from the Father and the Son, he proceeds from the Son as
well as from the Father ; especially as this mission of one Divine
Person from another, cannot be understood cither in the way
of command or instruction, or any other way, for in the Divine