Source of Evidence When Evidence Apostolic Father(Y/N)
Romans 8:9 1st century “But you are not in No, an Epistle.
the flesh; you are in
the Spirit, since the
Spirit of God dwells
in you. Anyone who
does not have the
Spirit of Christ does
not belong to him.”
Galatians 4:6 1st Century “And because you No, an epistle.
are the children,
God has sent the
Spirit of his Son
into our hearts...”
Philippians 1:19 1st Century “...and the help of No, an Epsitle.
the Spirit of Jesus
Christ this will turn
out for my
deliverance.”
Peter 1:11 1st Century “Inquiring about No, an Epistle.
the person or time
that the Spirit of
Christ within them
indicated when it
testified in advance
to the sufferings
destined for Christ
and the subsequent
glory.”
John 15:26 Early 1st Century “When the No, the words of Jesus
advocate comes, Christ.
whom I will send to
you...”
John 16:13-15 Early 1st Century “When the Spirit of No, the word of Jesus
Truth comes, he Christ
will guide you into
all the truth; for he
will not speak on
his own, but will
speak whatever he
hears, and he will
declare to you the
things that are to
come. He will
glorify me, because
he will take what is
mine and declare it
to you. All that the
father has is mine.
For this reason, I
said that he will
take what is mine
and declare it to
you.”
John 20:22 Early 1st Century “...he breathed on No. The words of Jesus
them and said to Christ
them, “Receive the
Holy Spirit...””
Against Praxeas 4:1 216 A.D. “I believe that the Yes. Tertullian.
Spirit proceeds not
otherwise than
from the Father
through the Son”
Commentaries on 229 A.D. “We believe, Yes. Origen.
John 2:6 however, that there
are three persons:
the Father and the
Son and the Holy
Spirit; and we
believe none to be
unbegotten except
the Father. We
admit, as more
pious and true, that
all things were
produced through
the Word, and that
the Holy Spirit is
the most excellent
and the first in
order of all that
was produced by
the Father through
Christ”
Questions to 254 A.D. “By nature, the Yes. Maximus the
Thalassium 63 Holy Spirit in his Confessor.
being takes
substantially his
origin from the
Father through the
Son who is
begotten.”
Confession of faith 265 A.D. “[There is] one Yes. Gregory the
Holy Spirit, having Wonderworker
substance from
God, and who is
manifested
through the Son;
image of the Son,
perfect of the
perfect; life, the
cause of living; holy
fountain; sanctity,
the dispenser of
sanctification; in
whom is
manifested God the
Father who is above
all and in all, and
God the Son who is
through all. Perfect
Trinity, in glory and
eternity and
sovereignty neither
divided nor
estranged”
The Trinity 2:29 357 A.D. “Concerning the Hilary of Poitiers
Holy Spirit . . . it is
not necessary to
speak of him who
must be
acknowledged, who
is from the Father
and the Son, his
sources”
The Holy Spirit 37 362 A.D. “As we have Didymus the Blind
understood
discussions . . .
about the
incorporeal
natures, so too it is
now to be
recognized that the
Holy Spirit receives
from the Son that
which he was of his
own nature. . . . So
too the Son is said
to receive from the
Father the very
things by which he
subsists. For
neither has the Son
anything else
except those things
given him by the
Father, nor has the
Holy Spirit any
other substance
than that given him
by the Son”
The man well 374 A.D. “The Father always Epiphanius of Salamis
anchored 75 existed, and the
Son always existed,
and the Spirit
breathes from the
Father and the
Son”
The Holy Spirit 375 A.D. “Through the Son, Basil The Great
18:45 who is one, he [the
Holy Spirit] is joined
to the Father, one
who is one, and by
himself completes
the Blessed Trinity”
The Holy Spirit 381 A.D. “Just as the Father Ambrose of Milan
1:15:152 is the fount of life,
so too, there are
many who have
stated that the Son
is designated as the
fount of life. It is
said, for example
that with you,
Almighty God, your
Son is the fount of
life, that is, the
fount of the Holy
Spirit”
The Athanasian 400 A.D. “[W]e venerate one No. Creed that is
Creed God in the Trinity, accepted as
and the Trinity in theologically correct.
oneness.... The
Father was not
made nor created
nor begotten by
anyone. The Son is
from the Father
alone, not made
nor created, but
begotten. The Holy
Spirit is from the
Father and the Son,
not made nor
created nor
begotten, but
proceeding”
Homilies on John 416 A.D. “Why, then, should Yes. St Augustine.
we not believe that
the Holy Spirit
proceeds also from
the Son, when he is
the Spirit also of
the Son? For if the
Holy Spirit did not
proceed from him,
when he showed
himself to his
disciples after his
resurrection he
would not have
breathed upon
them, saying,
‘Receive the Holy
Spirit’ [John 20:22].
For what else did
he signify by that
breathing upon
them except that
the Holy Spirit
proceeds also from
him”
