On the Trinity · §74

Prayer for Trinitarian Worship and the Judgment of the Spirit

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Having listened to us and benefiting us; then also to you; and so much 'then', as it is fitting after the uncreated to decently remember the order of natures. Entreat privately on my behalf and those from me and with me, for it was not permitted to provide more to us than this: that the intention upon this might be preserved for me unmoved, and that the prayer, making the most good, self-sufficient and undivided Trinity, be received; and that we might be honored to hymn-trinitarian-speak it in the heavens for the infinite ages of ages, and for the sake of its promised and believed-in unending and indivisible kingdom. Amen, amen, amen.

For all things are to judge with Christ, but the time is tending again toward the original hypothesis, that with Christ, as God and Creator, the Holy Spirit is to judge all things. For whose is it to judge, if not the one having communion with the Maker of them, in divinity and kingship? As Isaiah prophesies (Isa 11:1-4): 'A rod shall come forth from the root of Jesse and a flower shall rise up from the root. And the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and piety; and the Spirit shall fill him with the fear of God. He shall not judge according to the appearance, nor declare according to the speech; but he shall judge the poor with judgment and reprove the proud, and he shall select the humble of the earth, and shall tread the earth with the word of his mouth, and shall lift up the impious by the Spirit through his lips.' He speaks of a rod and a flower from the root of Jesse, the one sprouting from it in the incarnation and perfuming the hills with his own fragrance, upon whom we saw in the Gospels the Holy Spirit resting, and him as a judge with the Holy Spirit in the...

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ἀρεσκούσας καὶ ἡμᾶς εὐεργετούσας· ἔπειτα καὶ ὑμῖν· καὶ τοσούτῳ «ἔπειτα», ὅσῳ πρέπει μετὰ τὴν ἄκτιστον κτιστῆς εὐπρεπῶς μνημονεύειν φύσεως τάξαντας· ἱκετεύσατε ἰδικῶς ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ καὶ τῶν ἐξ ἐμοῦ καὶ σὺν ἐμοὶ καὶ πάντων τούτου γὰρ 77 πλέον παρέχειν ἡμῖν οὐκ ἐπετράπητε, τήν τε ἐπὶ τούτῳ γνώμην διατηρηθῆναί μοι ἀκίνητον, τήν τε εὐχὴν ἐπ' ἄπειρον κατορθοῦσα ἀγαθωτάτη καὶ αὐτοτελὴς καὶ ἀδιαίρετος τρίας, προσδεχθῆναι· καὶ καταξιωθῆναι ἡμᾶς παντεκνεὶ, πανοικεὶ, παγγενεὶ καὶ παμφιλεὶ φίλοι δὲ ἡμῖν οἱ ὀρθόδοξοι σὺν ὑμῖν τε καὶ πᾶσιν τοῖς ἁγίοις ἁγιοτρισσολογῆσαι αὐτὴν ἐν οὐρανοῖς εἰς τοὺς ἀπεράντους αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων καὶ τῆς ἐπηγγελμένης καὶ πρὸς ἡμῶν πιστευομένης ἀτελευτήτου καὶ ἀδιαιρέτου αὐτῆς βασιλείας χάριν αὐτῆς τυχεῖν. ἀμήν, ἀμήν, ἀμήν. 7.9ν ὅτι σὺν τῷ Χριστῷ κρίνειν μέλλει τὰ πάντα ἀλλ' ὥρα γὰρ εἰς τὴν ἀρχθεῖσαν ὑπόθεσιν αὖθις οὖν τείνεσθαι, ὅτι σὺν τῷ Χριστῷ, ἅτε θεὸς καὶ δημιουργός, τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα κρίνειν μέλλει τὰ πάντα. τίνος γὰρ καὶ ἔστιν κρίναι ἢ τοῦ κοινωνίαν ἔχοντος πρὸς τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτά, θεότητος καὶ βασιλείας; ὡς προφητεύει Ἠσαῖας μέν· «ἐξελεύσεται ῥάβδος ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης Ἰεσσαὶ καὶ ἄνθος ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης ἀναβήσεται. καὶ ἀναπαύσεται ἐπ' αὐτὸν πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ, πνεῦμα σοφίας καὶ συνέσεως, πνεῦμα βουλῆς καὶ ἰσχύος, πνεῦμα γνώσεως καὶ εὐσεβείας· καὶ ἐμπλήσει αὐτὸν πνεῦμα φόβου θεοῦ. οὐ κατὰ τὴν δόξαν κρινεῖ οὐδὲ κατὰ τὴν λαλιὰν ἐλέγξει· ἀλλὰ κρινεῖ τα πεινῷ κρίσιν καὶ ἐλέγξει τοὺς ὑπερηφάνους καὶ ἐξελεῖται τοὺς ταπεινοὺς τῆς γῆς, καὶ πατάξει τὴν γῆν τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ στόματος αὐ τοῦ καὶ ἐν πνεύματι διὰ χειλέων ἀνελεῖ ἀσεβεῖς.» ῥάβδον καὶ ἄνθος ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης Ἰεσσαὶ λέγει τὸν ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐν τῇ ἐνανθρωπήσει βλαστήσαντα καὶ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ εὐωδίᾳ τὴν ὑφήλιον ῥώσαντα, ἐφ' ὃν εἴδομεν ἐν εὐαγγελίοις ἀναπαυσάμενον τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, κριτὴν δὲ αὐτὸν σὺν τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι ἐν τῇ

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Didymus the Blind defends the full divinity of Father, Son, and Spirit against those who rank them.

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