54. We remember that the Paraclete was sent
by the Son, and at the beginning the creed explained this. But
since through the virtue of His nature, which is exactly similar, the
Son has frequently called His own works the works of the Father,
saying, I do the works of My Father John x. 37.: so when He intended to send the
Paraclete, as He often promised, He said sometimes that He was to be
sent from the Father, in that He was piously wont to refer all that He
did to the Father. And from this the heretics often seize an
opportunity of saying that the Son Himself is the Paraclete:
while by the fact that He promised to pray that another Comforter
should be sent from the Father, He shews the difference between Him who
is sent and Him who asked.