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Works on the Spirit: Athanasius’s Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, and, Didymus’s on the Holy Spirit is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the second half of the fourth century the mystery of the Holy Spirit was the subject of fierce debate. Those who fought against the Nicene Creed opposed the idea that the Spirit was God. Even some of those willing to accept the equality of the Father and the Son saw the Spirit as more angelic than divine. The first great testament to the Spirit’s divinity—showing how the Spirit creates and...

appropriate for that Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit—τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον—spoke beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas [Acts 1:16], demonstrating that the very same Spirit was working in the Prophets and in the Apostles.8 9. We will deal with this more fully in what follows when we begin to discuss not only how the Lord came as Word to the Prophets, but also how the Holy Spirit came to them, since he too is possessed inseparably with the only-begotten Son of God.9
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