Commentary on Sirach
Victor Vitensis
From the books of the Old Testament and then also from those of the New, we are taught that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are of a single substance. Indeed, the book of Genesis begins, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was invisible and shapeless, and darkness was over the abyss, and the Spirit of God moved over the waters." He was the beginning, he who spoke to the Jews who had asked him who he was, saying, "The beginning, who speaks to you." The Spirit of God, then, moved over the waters as creator, sustaining the creation by the virtue of his power, so that, producing from them all the living species, he gave the heat of his own fire to the crude elements, and the nature of water (suggesting even then the mystery of baptism) received sanctifying power and for the first time brought forth animated bodies to life. David, inspired by God, testifies, "By the Word of the Lord the heavens were fixed, and by the Spirit of his mouth all of their power." See how rich his brief words are, and how he clearly returns to the mystery of unity: by "Lord" indicating the Father, indicating the Son with the term "Word" and designating the Holy…
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