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the Father and the Son. They held that the Holy Ghost
was a creature like the angels, and a servant of the
Father and the Son. The very fact that belief in the
on the same level as belief in
Holy Ghost is placed
the Father and the Son implies the Divinity of all three
Persons. The Holy Ghost is called Lord as having the
same nature and therefore the same authority as the
Father and the Son: life-giver means Sanctifier. Grace
is the true life of the soul and all gifts of grace are
attributed to the Holy Ghost. We speak of the Holy
Ghost as the Sanctifier because that work of love is
attributed with special fitness to Him who proceeds
from the mutual love of the Father and Son, who proceedeth
from the Father and the Son. The Catholic
Doctrine teaches that the Second Person proceeds from
the First, and the Third from the First and the Second
by way of Communication of one and the same nature.
The introduction of the Filioque into the Creed seems
to have been first adopted in Spain. It is known to
have been in use as early as 589 and possibly a century
earlier. Rome, as we have seen, adopted the test-word
Filioque about 1015, and it has ever since been in
regular use in the Western Church. By the Council of
Florence it was defined that this addition, Filioque, was
"
lawfully and "
reasonably made to the Creed. Who
together with the Father and the Son is adored and
teaches the
glorified : the Council in these words again
Divinity of the Holy Ghost. If one and the same act
of adoration be paid to the Holy Ghost as to the Father
and the Son, the Holy Ghost is God as much as the
Father and the Son. Who spake by the Prophets;
the duty of a Prophet was to foretell the coming of
Christ and to teach Divine truth they were inspired
by God, and the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of truth