On the Reasons of the Holy Spirit, Book II

metaphors. Since the Son or the Word is not generated through a material emanation or spoken utterance, but through the image of the mind that holds all things within itself. Hence it is also clear that those who say the Father is only power, the Son is only wisdom, and the Holy Spirit is only love or will, are in the gravest and foulest error, since there is nothing in one that is not in the other, and the whole is in the whole. For in power there is wisdom and love; in wisdom there is power and love or benevolence; in the latter there is wisdom and power. Nor can they be confused or separated, nor is there anything in one that is not in the other, since there is but one divinity and majesty. Therefore, there cannot be anything in one person that is not in the other, since it is the one and supreme perfection, which would not be such if it were not everywhere. I do not wish to fill my page with infamous and Herostratean names referring to Herostratus, a man who burned the Temple of Artemis to gain fame; here, the author implies he does not wish to record the names of heretics to avoid granting them notoriety.. It is enough to know that whatever has been defined by the Church against impious and heretical opinions regarding God, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and through the authority of the sacred writings and their pious interpretations, that is most true. We do not deal here with the specific positions and descriptions, because everything has been sufficiently and abundantly explained in the first book to confirm them. If any contradiction should ever arise against these tenets through the Antichrist, a remedy can nevertheless always be sought from there. After God has been vindicated as Creator from impious assertions, it will deservedly follow that the same Creator, having become man, is the Restorer.