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 "shall I  go  from  Thy  omnipresent  Spirit?  "  Only  God is omniscient,  and  says  St. Paul: "  The  Spirit  searcheth  all  things,  yea,  the  deep  things  of  God." Only God is  omnipotent,  and,  prays  the  Royal  Prophet: " Send  forth  Thy  Spirit  and  they  shall  be  created." To have  a  temple  of  worship  is  God's  exclusive  prerogative, but,  says  St.  Paul:  "  Know  ye  not  that your  bodies  are  the  temple  of  the  Holy  Spirit?  "  To "  speak  by  the  mouth  of  His  holy  prophet "  was surely peculiar  to  the  Lord  God  of  Israel,  but  St. Peter  says,  "  those  holy  men  of  God  spoke  inspired by  the  Holy  Ghost." Finally, nothing  could  be plainer  than  St.  Peter's  assertion  of  this  truth  when, having detected  the  duplicity  of  Ananias,  he  said  to him:  "Ananias,  why  hath  Satan  tempted  thy  heart that  thou  shouldst  lie  to  the  Holy  Ghost?  Thou hast  not  Ked  to  men,  but  to  God." What, therefore, of  the  Arian  argument? Certainly, when  it  is a  question  of  the  exercise  of  authority,  the  sender is necessarily  superior  to  the  person  sent,  but  there is another  manner  of  sending  forth,  by  production, namely, as  when  the  sun  puts  forth  its  rays  and  the trees their  blossoms  and  fruit,  and  here  is  involved no inequality,  for  rays  and  flowers  and  fruit  are  by nature  identical  with  the  principle  from  which  they emanate. Such, in  some  sort,  is  the  emanation  of the  Son  from  the  Father,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost from the  Father  and  the  Son. But here  again  the heretics sought  occasion  to  attack  the  divinity  of  the third person,  arguing  that  as  God  produces  by generation  and  creation  only,  therefore  the  Holy