III.1262
| 1262 From
Athanasius, as above, p. 155. |
Then he says again: As the Saviour converses
with those not yet able to receive what is perfect,1263
condescending to their littleness, while
the
Holy Spirit communes with the perfected, and yet we could never say
on that account that the teaching of the Spirit is superior to the
teaching of the Son, but only that the Son condescends to the
imperfect, while the Spirit is the seal of the perfected; even so it is
not on account of the superiority of the Spirit over the Son that the
blasphemy against the Spirit is a sin excluding impunity and pardon,
but because for the imperfect there is pardon, while for those who have
tasted the heavenly gift,
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and been made perfect, there remains no plea or prayer for
pardon.
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