"But," said Arius, "is not the Holy Ghost called ’he’ in the paragraph from John which readeth--’And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that HE may abide with you forever; the Spirit of truth; whom the world can not receive, because it seeth HIM not, neither knoweth HIM: but ye know HIM, for HE dwelleth with you and shall be in you’; and in that passage which readeth as follows: ’But the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, HE shall teach you all things’: and do not these readings conflict with your idea that the name of the third person in the Christian triad expresses nothing as to sex?" "I think not so," answered the ancient, "because it is evident that in these places the only thing that can be meant by the ’Holy Ghost’ and the ’Spirit of truth’ is the Paraclete, the Comforter; and while the Greek word for comforter is a noun of the masculine gender, the words ’Holy Ghost’ and ’Spirit of truth’ still retain their neuter form, although put in apposition with it; and the pronouns ’he’ and ’him’ take their masculine form from the word comforter, and not from the words Holy Ghost and Spirit, which are always neuter, and express nothing as to sex. Besides this, I do not find anywhere in the scriptures any characteristics which are essentially masculine ascribed to the Holy Ghost, and I do find many which are essentially feminine." "Wilt thou state any other argument, if there be any, that maintaineth this grand idea of a dual God that becometh a triad by the generation of a son?"