201. Next because you make certain grades,
so as to put the Father before the Son, and the Son before the Holy
Spirit, tell me whether the Holy Spirit knew the day of judgment.
For no thing is written of Him in this place. You deny it
entirely. But what if I show you He knew it? For it is
written: “But God hath revealed them to us by His Spirit,
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of
God.” 1 Cor. ii. 10.
Wherefore, because He searches the deep things of God, since God knows
the day of judgment, the Spirit also knows it. For He knows all
that God knows, as also the Apostle states, saying: “For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is
in him, even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of
God.” 1 Cor. ii. 11. Take
heed therefore lest either by denying that the Holy Spirit knows, you
should deny that the Father knows; (For the things of God, the Spirit
of God also knows, but the things which the Spirit of God does not
know, are not the things of God). Or by confessing that the
Spirit of God knows, what you deny that the Son of God knows, you
should put the Spirit before the Son in opposition to your own
declaration. But to hesitate on this point is not only
blasphemous but also foolish.