the Son, and the Holy Ghost,1 our Lord did not connect the gift with number. He did not say “into First, Second, and Third,”2 nor yet “into one, two, and three, but He gave us the boon of the knowledge of the faith which leads to salvation, by means of holy names. So that what saves us is our faith. Number has been devised as a symbol indicative of the quantity of objects. But these men, who bring ruin on themselves from every possible source, have turned even the capacity for counting against