100. But perhaps some one may say, Show me
that we can read expressly that all things are of the Son, or that all
things are of the Spirit. But I reply, Let them also show that it
is written that all things are through the Father. But since we
have proved that these expressions suit either the Father or the Son or
the Holy Spirit, and that no distinction of the divine power can arise
from particles of this kind, there is no doubt but that all things are
of Him through Whom all things are; and that all things are through Him
through Whom all are; and that we must understand that all things are
through Him or of Him in Whom all are. For every creature exists
both of the will, and through the operation and in the power of the
Trinity, as it is written: “Let Us make man after Our image
and likeness;” Gen. i. 26. and
elsewhere: “By the word of the Lord were the heavens
established, and all their power by the Spirit of His
mouth.” Ps. xxxiii. 6.