145. And how should He not be a master Who
speaks what He wills, and commands what He wills, as the Father
commands and the Son commands? For as Paul heard the voice saying
to him, “I am Jesus, Whom thou persecutest,” Acts ix. 5. so, too, the Spirit forbade Paul and Silas
to go into Bithynia. And as the Father spake through the
prophets, so, too, Agabus says concerning the Spirit: “Thus
saith the Holy Spirit, Thus shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind the man,
whose is this girdle.” Acts xxi. 11. And as
Wisdom sent the apostles, saying, “Go ye into all the world and
preach the Gospel,” S. Mark xvi. 15. so, too, the Holy
Spirit says: “Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work
whereunto I have called them.” Acts xiii. 2. And
so being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, as the Scripture points out
farther on, they were distinguished in nothing from the other apostles,
as though they were sent in one way by God the Father, in another way
by Spirit.