120. Lastly, Wisdom so says that she came
forth from the mouth of the Most High, Eccles. xxiv. 5.
as not to be external to the Father, but with the Father; for
“the Word was with God;” S. John i. 1. and not only
with God but also in God; for He says: “I am in the Father
and the Father is in Me.” Ibid.
xiv. 10. But neither
when He goes forth from the Father does He retire from a place, nor is
He separated as a body from a body; nor when He is in the Father is He
as if a body enclosed as it were in a body. The Holy Spirit also,
when He proceeds from the Father and the Son, is not separated from the
Father nor separated from the Son. For how could He be separated
from the Father Who is the Spirit of His mouth? Which is
certainly both a proof of His eternity, and expresses the Unity of this
Godhead.