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Word.’ ‘The Holy Spirit from whom all the abundance of good things gushes
up to creation, depends (ἤρτηται) on the Son, with whom he is indivisibly
apprehended.’ 9
6. In the relationship between the Holy Trinity and creation, ‘The Father does
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(κτίζει) all things through the Word in the Holy Spirit.’ ‘Every operation
(ἐνέργεια) which extends from God to the creation, and is named according to
our variable conceptions of it, has its origin (ἀφορμάται) from the Father, and
proceeds (πρόεισι) through the Son and is perfected (τελειοῡται) in the Holy
Spirit’ 11

8 Athanasius, Epistola ad Serapionem 1.20; Eng. trans. in Khaled Anatolios, Athanasius, The Early
Church Fathers (New York: Routledge, 2002), 220.
9 Gregory of Nyssa, Letter to Peter 4; Eng. trans. in John Behr, The Formation of Christian Theology, ii:
The Nicene Faith (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2004), 419.
10 St Athanasius, Third Letter to Serapion, chapter 28, Patrologia Graeca, 26, p. 623; Eng. trans. in The
Letters of St Athanasius Concerning the Holy Spirit, trans. C. R. B. Shapland (London: Epworth Press,
1951), 13-5.
11 e.g. Patrologia Graeca, 45, p. 125; Gregory of Nyssa, On ‘Not Three Gods’ to Ablabius, Nicene and
Post-Nicene Fathers, ser. 2, v (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1978), 334.

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