Eran. -Agreed.
Orth. -But it calls God the Word only begotten Son.
Eran. -It does.
Orth. -It nowhere so names the Holy Ghost.
Eran. -No.
Orth. -Yet the Holy Ghost also has Its subsistence of the Father and God.
Eran. -True.
Orth. -We grant then that both the Son and the Holy Ghost are both of God the Father; but would you dare to call the Holy Ghost Son?
Eran. -Certainly not.
Orth. -Why?
Eran. -Because I do not find this term in the divine Scripture.
Orth. -Or begotten?
Eran. -No.
Orth. -Wherefore?
Eran. -Because I no more learn this in the divine Scripture.
Orth. -But what name can properly be given to that which is neither begotten nor created?
Eran. -We style it uncreated and unbegotten.
Orth. -And we say that the Holy Ghost is neither created nor begotten.
Eran. -By no means.
Orth. -Would you then dare to call the Holy Ghost unbegotten?
Eran. -No.
Orth. -But why refuse to call that which is naturally uncreate, but not begotten, unbegotten?
Eran. -Because I have not learnt so from the divine Scripture, and I am greatly afraid of saying, or using language which Scripture does not use.
Orth. -Then, my good sir, I maintain the same caution in the case of the passion of salvation; do you too avoid all the divine names which Scripture has avoided in the case of the passion, and do not attribute the passion to them.
Eran. -What names?