Furthermore if he calls the Holy Ghost a creature
he describes His nature as limited. How then can the two
following passages stand? “The Spirit of the Lord filleth
the world;”
Wisdom i. 7. and “Whither
shall I go from thy Spirit?”
Ps. cxxxix.
7. But he
does not, it would seem, confess Him to be simple in nature; for he
describes Him as one in number. And, as I have already said,
everything that is one in number is not simple. And if the Holy
Spirit is not simple, He consists of essence and sanctification, and is
therefore composite. But who is mad enough to describe the Holy
Spirit as composite, and not simple, and consubstantial with the Father
and the Son?