44. But what should
we say of the other points? We have heard that the Lord Jesus not
only judges in the Spirit but punishes also. For neither would He
punish Antichrist, whom, as we read, “the Lord Jesus shall slay
with the Spirit of His mouth,” 2 Thess. ii. 8. unless He
had before judged of his deserts. Yet here is not a grace
received, but the unity remains undivided, since neither can Christ be
without the Spirit, nor the Spirit without Christ. For the unity
of the divine nature cannot be divided.