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beginning - and that the Spirit in Hermas' belief is not a
person.
(b) Justin - called the "Martyr" (100?-167? A.C.) -
and Theophilus (120?-180? A.C.) understand by the Holy
Spirit sometimes a peculiar form of the manifestation of
the Word and sometimes a divine attribute, but never a
divine person. It must be remembered that these two
Greek fathers and writers of the second century A.C. had
no definite knowledge and belief about the Holy Ghost of
the Trinitarians of the fourth and the succeeding centuries.
(c) Athenagoras (110-180 A.C.) says the Holy Spirit
is an emanation of God proceeding from and returning to
Him like the rays of the sun (Deprecatio pro Christiarus,
person.
(b) Justin - called the "Martyr" (100?-167? A.C.) -
and Theophilus (120?-180? A.C.) understand by the Holy
Spirit sometimes a peculiar form of the manifestation of
the Word and sometimes a divine attribute, but never a
divine person. It must be remembered that these two
Greek fathers and writers of the second century A.C. had
no definite knowledge and belief about the Holy Ghost of
the Trinitarians of the fourth and the succeeding centuries.
(c) Athenagoras (110-180 A.C.) says the Holy Spirit
is an emanation of God proceeding from and returning to
Him like the rays of the sun (Deprecatio pro Christiarus,