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384 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
to his Divino Father :
" For
whatsoever things he (the Father)
doth, these the Son also doth in like manner For as the
Father raiseth up the dead, and givcth life, so the Son also giveth
life to whom he will" (John, v, 19, 21). St. Thomas says (6),
that the miracles alone which Christ wrought were sufficient to
make manifest the Divine power which he :
possessed
" Ex hoc
ostendebatur, quod haberet virtutem corequalem Deo Patri."
This was what our Lord said to the Jews when they were about
to stone him :
"
Many good works have I showed from my
Father ; for which of those works do you stone me ? The Jews
answered him : For a good work we stone thee not, but for blas
phemy, and because that thou, being a man, maketh thyself
God. Jesus answered them : You say : Thou blasphemest,
because I said, I am the Son of God ? If I do not the works of
my Father, believe me not; but if I do, though you will not
believe me, believe the works," &c. (John, x, 32, &c.) We have
said enough on this subject.
THE HOLY GHOST WAS NOT SENT TO THE APOSTLES BY JESUS CHRIST, BUT
BY THE FATHER ALONE, AT THE PRAYER OF CHRIST.
44. Berruyer says that the Holy
Ghost was not sent to the
Apostles by Jesus Christ, but by the Father, at his prayer :
" Ad
orationem Jcsu Christi, qua) voluntatis ejus efficacis signum erit,
mittet Pater Spiritum Sanctum. Qua) quasi raptim delibavimus
de Jesu Christo missuro Spiritum Sanctum, quatenus homo Deus
est Patrcm rogaturus."
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45. This error is also a necessary consequence of the former
ones ; that is, Jesus Christ, the Word, did not operate, but the
Humanity alone, or the Man made the Son of one God subsisting
in three Persons, by reason of the union of the Person of the
Word with the ; Humanity and from this false supposition he
deduces this present falsehood, that the Holy Ghost was not sent
by Jesus Christ, but by the Father, at the prayer of Jesus
(6) St. Thorn. 3 p. q, 43, art. 4.