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ix, x). Irenaeus (130?-202? A.C.) says that the Holy Spirit
and the Son are two worshipers of God and that the angels
submit to them. The wide difference between the belief

and the conceptions of these two early fathers about the
Holy Spirit is too obvious to need any further comment.

It is surprising that the two worshipers of God, according to
the declaration of such an authority as Irenaeus, should,
two centuries afterwards, be raised to the dignity of God

and proclaimed two divine persons in company with the one
true God by whom they were created.

(d) The most illustrious and learned of all the

ante-Nicene fathers and the Christian apologists was Origen
(185-254 A C.). The author of the Hexepla ascribes
personality to the Holy Spirit, but makes it a creature of