Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 5

The Second Discourse on the Spirituality of our Lord.

And how is this possible? And he who concerning the man of Jacob the Patriarch was, he who is the son of the Most High, righteous and just; concerning him he said, that he resembles fire and gold. When it is not the spirit of light that to those who are baptized he gives, as a man or as a person he thinks that he serves, but as one who is God in his essence, the Spirit that is his and from him in the birth he gives, he who in his stirring gives the divine [gift] from the humble. Humility indeed in the divine day in Christ the Anointed One was given. When not bodily they are revolving, but by the wealth of the Spirit to Christ the Anointed One from [him] they receive. And when the spiritual [gift] is given thus, the Spirit goes out in the endowment, of the divine [that] is spread of the glory and life of the sweetness. Those indeed who in Christ the Anointed One are named, Christ the Anointed One they have put on.

To him If, however, a person should ask, that "What then, in the Son does it go out?" Let us hear also from us, that do not be surprised, and if the Son, truly it is and known to them [are] the mysteries for hope. It goes out, indeed, not in the common Son original: "(1)", but in God who became a human being, and henceforth the going out of his power [is] holy to that from which [is] his faith. Also his embodiment indeed more [than] he said, that there shall be and named the name of our Lord Jesus Christ the Anointed One for a new glory, and you shall receive the gift of the Spirit original: "(2)". [It is] superior indeed from [the] life to the life that approached to him, and that in him anointed him who from him goes out, as from God the Word, and from his glorious essence. When, however, he made for him the matter that [is] his,

(1) "Common" (Latin: Simpliciter).
(2) Acts 2:38.