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

To the Cæsareans. A defence of his withdrawal, and concerning the faith.therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonand of the Holy Ghost”? Here too you see the Holy Ghost present with the Father and theSon. And what would you say also as to the resurrection of the dead when we shall havefailed and returned to our dust? Dust we are and unto dust we shall return. 1853 And Hewill send the Holy Ghost and create us and renew the face of the earth. 1854 For what theholy Paul calls resurrection David describes as renewal. Let us hear, once more, him whowas caught into the third heaven. What does he say? “You are the temple of the Holy Ghostwhich is in you.” 1855 Now every temple 1856 is a temple of God, and if we are a temple ofthe Holy Ghost, then the Holy Ghost is God. It is also called Solomon’s temple, but this isin the sense of his being its builder. And if we are a temple of the Holy Ghost in this sense,then the Holy Ghost is God, for “He that built all things is God.” 1857 If we are a temple ofone who is worshipped, and who dwells in us, let us confess Him to be God, for thou shaltworship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. 1858 Supposing them to objectto the word “God,” let them learn what this word means. God is called Θεὸς either becauseHe placed (τεθεικέναι) all things or because He beholds (Θεᾶσθαι) all things. If He is calledΘεὸς because He “placed” or “beholds” all things, and the Spirit knoweth all the things ofGod, as the Spirit in us knoweth our things, then the Holy Ghost is God. 1859 Again, if thesword of the spirit is the word of God, 1860 then the Holy Ghost is God, inasmuch as thesword belongs to Him of whom it is also called the word. Is He named the right hand ofthe Father? For “the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass;” 1861 and “thyright hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.” 1862 But the Holy Ghost is the fingerof God, as it is said “if I by the finger of God cast out devils,” 1863 of which the version inanother Gospel is “if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils.” 1864 So the Holy Ghost is of thesame nature as the Father and the Son.1853 cf. Gen. iii. 19.1854 cf. Ps. ciii. 30.1855 1 Cor. vi. 19.1856 The Greek word ναός (ναίω)=dwelling-place. The Hebrew probably indicates capacity. Our “temple,”from the latin Templum (τέμενος—vΤΑΜ) is derivatively a place cut off.1857 Heb. iii. 4.1858 Matt. iv. 10. cf. note on p. .1859 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11. On the derivation of Θεός from θέω (τίθημι) or θεάομαι, cf. Greg. Naz. Skeat rejectsthe theory of connexion with the Latin Deus, and thinks that the root of τίθημι may be the origin.1860 Eph. vi. 17.1861 Ps. cxviii. 16. P.B. “doeth valiantly,” A.V. ἐποίησε δύνα μιν, LXX.1862 Ex. xv. 6.1863 Luke xi. 20.1864 Matt. xii. 28.383