NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

That the Holy Spirit is in every conception inseparable from the Father and the Son, alikein the creation of perceptible objects, in the dispensation of human affairs, and in thejudgment to come.ences of dignities: for as “star differeth from star in glory, so also is the resurrection of thedead.” 1069 They, then, that were sealed by the Spirit unto the day of redemption, 1070 andpreserve pure and undiminished the first fruits which they received of the Spirit, are theythat shall hear the words “well done thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithfulover a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.” 1071 In like manner they whichhave grieved the Holy Spirit by the wickedness of their ways, or have not wrought for Himthat gave to them, shall be deprived of what they have received, their grace being transferredto others; or, according to one of the evangelists, they shall even be wholly cut asunder,1072 —the cutting asunder meaning complete separation from the Spirit. The body isnot divided, part being delivered to chastisement, and part let off; for when a whole hassinned it were like the old fables, and unworthy of a righteous judge, for only the half tosuffer chastisement. Nor is the soul cut in two,—that soul the whole of which possesses thesinful affection throughout, and works the wickedness in co-operation with the body. Thecutting asunder, as I have observed, is the separation for aye of the soul from the Spirit. Fornow, although the Spirit does not suffer admixture with the unworthy, He nevertheless doesseem in a manner to be present with them that have once been sealed, awaiting the salvationwhich follows on their conversion; but then He will be wholly cut off from the soul that hasdefiled His grace. For this reason “In Hell there is none that maketh confession; in deathnone that remembereth God,” 1073 because the succour of the Spirit is no longer present.How then is it possible to conceive that the judgment is accomplished without the HolySpirit, wherein the word points out that He is Himself the prize 1074 of the righteous, wheninstead of the earnest 1075 is given that which is perfect, and the first condemnation of sinners,when they are deprived of that which they seem to have? But the greatest proof of the conjunctionof the Spirit with the Father and the Son is that He is said to have the same relationto God which the spirit in us has to each of us. “For what man” it is said, “knoweth thethings of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knowethno man but the Spirit of God.” 1076On this point I have said enough.261069 1 Cor. xv. 41, 42.1070 cf. Eph. iv. 30.1071 Matt. xxv. 21.1072 Matt. xxiv. 51.1073 Ps. vi. 5, lxx. ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ ὁ μνημονεύων σου, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἅδῃ τίς ἐξομολογήσεται σοι;Vulg. “In inferno autem quis confitebitur tibi?”1074 Phil. iii. 14.1075 2 Cor. i. 22, v. 5.1076 1 Cor. ii. 11.195