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§ 1. " I believe in one, the Spirit of truth, proceeding from the ,—the life-giving Spirit." From the Nicene Creed as used in the three Liturgies of the Nestorians.

§ 2. "He went out with them unto Bethany, and lifted up His hands and blessed them, and spake to them of the the Paraclete, the Holy Person, and made known to them that He is co-existent with the  from eternity, incomprehensible, and not to be contained by this limited world. That it is He who dispenses gifts and discloses the mysteries to come, and who interprets the hidden things of . He also made known unto them that the  is not a mere gift but a Person, co-equal with the  and the, and that it is He who judges, teaches, communicates, and who speaks in the place of the speakers." &#91;S. Luke xii. 11, 12.] From the service appointed in the Gezza for the festival of the holy Nativity.

From the above it will be seen that the Nestorians believe the Spirit to proceed from the, as do all the Churches of the East agreeably with the creed drawn up by the Council of Constantinople, 381; but the doctrine of the Procession is hardly ever adverted to in their rituals in a purely doctrinal form. It is remarkable, however, that in the so-called Nicene