4. Let
no one therefore separate the Old from the New Testament Cf. Cat. iv. 33; vii.
6. Irenæus, Hæres. III. xxi. 4; IV. ix.
1. In Eusebius, E.H. V. 13, Rhodon says that Apelles
attributed the prophecies to an adverse spirit and rejected them as
false and self-contradictory. Similar blasphemies against the
holy Prophets are imputed to Manes by Epiphanius
(Hæres. lxvi. 30).; let no one say that the Spirit in the
former is one, and in the latter another; since thus he offends against
the Holy Ghost Himself, who with the Father and the Son together is
honoured, and at the time of Holy Baptism is included with them in the
Holy Trinity. For the Only-begotten Son of God said plainly to
the Apostles, Go ye, and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost Matt. xxviii. 19. The same text is used with much
force by S. Basil (De Spir. S. cap. xxiv.).. Our hope is
in Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost. We preach not three
Gods Cat. xi. 4, note
3. See Newman’s notes on Athanasius, Contra Arian.
Or. I. viii. 1; Ib. Or. III. xxv. 9; Ib. xxvii. 3.
Marcion’s doctrine of three first principles (τριῶν
ἀρχῶν
λόγος) is discussed by Epiphanius
(Hæres. xlii. 6, 7). See also Tertull. Contra
Marcion. I. 15; Euseb. Hist. Eccles. V. 13.; let the Marcionites be silenced; but with
the Holy Ghost through One Son, we preach One God. The Faith is
indivisible; the worship inseparable. We neither separate the
Holy Trinity, like some; nor do we as Sabellius work
confusion. συναλοιφήν,
iv. 8; xi. 16; xv. 9. But we know
according to godliness One Father, who sent His Son to be our Saviour;
we know One Son, who promised that He would send the Comforter from the
Father; we know the Holy Ghost, who spake in the Prophets, and who on
the day of Pentecost descended on the Apostles in the form of fiery
tongues, here, in Jerusalem, in the Upper Church of the
Apostles Cat. xvii. 13.
Epiphanius (De Mensuris et Ponder. c. 14):
“And he (Hadrian) found the city all levelled to the ground,
except a few houses, and the Church of God which was small: where
the Disciples, on their return after the Saviour was taken up from the
Mount of Olives, went up into the upper chamber: for there it had
been built, that is on Sion.” Cf. Stanley, Sinai and
Palestine, c. xiv. 3: “Within the precincts of that
Mosque (of the Tomb of David) is a vaulted Gothic chamber, which
contains within its four walls a greater confluence of traditions than
any other place of like dimensions in Palestine. It is startling
to hear that this is the scene of the Last Supper, of the meeting after
the Resurrection, of the miracle of Pentecost, of the residence and
death of the Virgin, of the burial of Stephen.”; for in all things
the choicest privileges are with us. Here Christ came down from
heaven; here the Holy Ghost came down from heaven. And in truth
it were most fitting, that as we discourse concerning Christ and
Golgotha here in Golgotha, so also we should speak concerning the Holy
Ghost in the Upper Church; yet since He who descended there jointly
partakes of the glory of Him who was crucified here, we here speak
concerning Him also who descended there: for their worship is
indivisible.