of his Master2378 (though, as Luke the Evangelist declares more plainly, he ate and drank with the rest of His disciples this first Sacrament of His body and blood, consecrated2379 by the Lord’s hands), did he “dwell in Christ and Christ in him”? Do so many, in fine, who either in hypocrisy eat that flesh and drink that blood, or who after they have eaten and drunk become apostate, do they “dwell in Christ or Christ in them”? Yet assuredly there is a certain manner of eating that Flesh and drinking that Blood, in which whosoever eateth and drinketh, “he dwelleth in Christ and Christ in him.” As then he doth not “dwell in Christ and Christ in him,” who “eateth the Flesh and drinketh the Blood of Christ” in any manner whatsoever, but only in some certain manner, to which He doubtless had regard when He spake these words. So in this expression also, “He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness,” he is not guilty of this unpardonable sin, who shall blaspheme in any way whatever, but in that particular way, which it is His will, who uttered this true and terrible sentence, that we should seek out and understand. 18. Now as to what that mode, or immoderateness2380 rather, of blasphemy is, what that particular blasphemy, and what that word against the Holy Ghost, the order of my discourse requires me to say what I think, and not to put off any longer your expectation which has been so long but so necessarily deferred. Ye know, Dearly beloved, that in that invisible and incorruptible Trinity, which our faith and the Church Catholic maintains and preaches, God the Father is not the Father of the Holy Spirit, but of the Son; and that God the Son is not the Son of the Holy Spirit, but of the Father; but that God the Holy Spirit is 324 the Spirit not of the Father only, or of the Son only, but of the Father and the Son. And that this Trinity, although the2381 Property and particular2382 Subsistence2383 of each person is preserved, is yet, because of the undivided and inseparable Essence or Nature of Eternity,2384 Truth, and Goodness, not three Gods but One God. And by this means, according to our capacity, and as far as it is granted us to see these things “through a glass darkly,” especially being such as we now are, there is conveyed to2385 us the idea of Origination2386 in the 2378 Luke xxii. 21. 2379 Confectum. 2380 Blasphemandi modus, vel potius immoderatio. 2381 Proprietate. 2382 Substantia. 2383 See note on the word Hypostasis in the Nicene Anathema, St. Ath. Treatises against Arianism, part 1, p. 66, Oxford translation. 2384 Conf. lib. vii. x. (16). 2385 Insinuatur. 2386 Auctoritas; St. Augustin, C. Maxim. iii. 14, guards the word against any idea of inequality; see Pet. De Trin. v. and 5. 11–13, who observes that the Greeks have no word exactly corresponding, although ἀρχή, αἴτιον, are equivalent. 683 On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xii. 32, ‘Whosoever shall speak a word…