Spirit without separating them in a way that would threaten to truncate the Trinitarian doctrine? This distinction was quite unclear in the theologies of the second and third centuries.4 2. As long as the distinction between the Son and Spirit was ambiguous and, subsequently, the hypostatic nature of both in the process of being more precisely defined, the relation to Logos/Word and Wisdom was confusing. To take an example, what is the relation of the Son to the preexistent Wisdom of Proverbs 8:22–23?