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

Against those who assert that the Spirit ought not to be glorified.have you never heard concerning the Only-begotten that He “is at the right hand of God,who also maketh intercession for us”? 1143 Do not, then, because the Spirit is in you,—ifindeed He is at all in you,—nor yet because He teaches us who were blinded, and guides usto the choice of what profits us,—do not for this reason allow yourself to be deprived of theright and holy opinion concerning Him. For to make the loving kindness of your benefactora ground of ingratitude were indeed a very extravagance of unfairness. “Grieve not the HolySpirit;” 1144 hear the words of Stephen, the first fruits of the martyrs, when he reproachesthe people for their rebellion and disobedience; “you do always,” he says, “resist the HolyGhost;” 1145 and again Isaiah,—“They vexed His Holy Spirit, therefore He was turned to betheir enemy;” 1146 and in another passage, “the house of Jacob angered the Spirit of theLord.” 1147 Are not these passages indicative of authoritative power? I leave it to the judgmentof my readers to determine what opinions we ought to hold when we hear these passages;whether we are to regard the Spirit as an instrument, a subject, of equal rank with the creature,and a fellow servant of ourselves, or whether, on the contrary, to the ears of the pious themere whisper of this blasphemy is not most grievous. Do you call the Spirit a servant? But,it is said, “the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth,” 1148 and yet the Spirit knoweththe things of God, as “the spirit of man that is in him.” 1149321143 Rom. viii. 34.1144 Eph. iv. 30.1145 Acts vii. 51.1146 Is. lxiii. 10.1147 Ps. cvi. 32; Micah ii. 7.1148 John xv. 15.1149 1 Cor. ii. 11.208