28. How utterly confused is a course of argument
which does not hold to the truth, and is involved in an inverted order
of statements. For this argument would be of value for the
statement that the Holy Spirit is amongst all things, if they proved
that He was made. For Scripture says that all things which were
made were made by the Son; but since we are not taught that the Holy
Spirit was made, He certainly cannot be proved to be amongst all things
Who was neither made as all things are, nor created. To me this
testimony is of use for establishing each point; firstly, that He is
proved to be above all things, because He was not made; and secondly,
that because He is above all things, He is seen not to have been made,
and is not to be numbered amongst those things which were made.