65. How is He capable of change Who is
always good? For the Holy Spirit, through Whom the things that
are good are ministered to us, is never evil. Whence two
evangelists in one and the same place, in words in differing from each
other, have made the same statement, for you read in Matthew:
“If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children; how much more shall your Father, Who is in heaven, give good
things to them that ask Him.” S. Matt. vii. 11. But
according to Luke you will find it thus written: “How much
more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
Him?” S. Luke xi. 13. We
observe, then, that the Holy Spirit is good in the Lord’s
judgment by the testimony of the evangelists, since the one has put
good things in the place of the Holy Spirit, the other has named the
Holy Spirit in the place of good things. If, then, the Holy
Spirit is that which is good, how is He not good?