Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
He has also well introduced faith, stimulating us to its confession, and to faith itself. He has placed virtue as a foundation. For as faith is the incentive to fortitude, so is fortitude the strong support of faith.
Truly by the Son of Man we understand Christ, Who by the Holy Spirit was born of a virgin, seeing that His only parent on earth is the Virgin. What then, is the Holy Spirit greater than Christ, that they who sin against Christ should obtain pardon, while they who offend against the Holy Spirit are not thought worthy to obtain it? But where there isunity of power there is no question of comparison.
Thus it is thought by some that we should believe both the Son and the Holy Spirit to be the same Christ, preserving the distinction of Persons with the unity of the substance, since Christ both God and man is one Spirit, as it is written, The Spirit before our face, Christ the Lord; the same Spirit is holy, for both the Father is holy and the Son holy, and the Spirit holy. If then Christ is each, what difference is there except we know that it is not lawful for us to deny the divinity of Christ?
