XXVI. Before the advent of Christ, he says, there was no visible hypostasis of the Spirit. Whence it would follow that there was neither hypostasis nor real person, seeing that there can be no person that is not visible, as he declares in his book and asserts in his answers; speaking also, as he does in another place, of the Spirit of God, as The Shadow in the Creation of the world. REPLY. XXVI. Person in the Word is called a visible hypostasis, and in the Spirit is spoken of as a perceptible hypostasis. ARTICLE. XXVII. As all things are said by Servetus to be in God, so and in the same order were they in God before creation, Christ being first and foremost of all—such being the kind of Eternity he allows to the Son of God. Further, that God, by his Eternal Wisdom, decreeing 414 to himself from Eternity a visible Son, gives effect to his decree by means of the Word. REPLY. XXVII. All this is good, and you would see it so were you not perversely minded. ARTICLE. XXVIII. Christ, he says, so long as he abode in the flesh, had not yet received the new Spirit which was to be his portion after the resurrection, and was verily afterwards imparted to him; so that he now possesses hypostatically the glory both of the Word and the Spirit, prefigured by the dove descending on him in Jordan. REPLY. XXVIII. There is nothing here that is not true, would you but be willing to understand it. ARTICLE. XXIX. In God, he maintains, there are no parts and partitions as in creatures, but Dispensations, and this in such wise that in the partition or imparting of the Spirit every portion is God. Beside this, he says that our spirits substantially are from Eternity, and so are consubstantial and coeternal; although he elsewhere declares that the spirit wherewith we are enlightened may be extinguished. REPLY. XXIX. All you say here at first is true; but I do not say that the Spirit of God in itself is extinguished, because, when we die, the spirit departs from us. ARTICLE. XXX. The Divine Spirit, it is said, was infused into us in the beginning by the breath of God. REPLY. XXX. This is most true; and you, miserable man, deluded by Simon Magus, ignorest it. Making a slave of 415 our will, you turn us into stocks and stones. ARTICLE. XXXI. When we find it stated in the Law that the Spirit of God is in any one, this is not to be taken as meaning the Spirit of regeneration. REPLY. XXXI. The words quoted, I say, are for the most part so to be understood. ARTICLE. XXXII. Angels, he says, were worshipped by the Jews of old; so that he calls Angels their Gods; but, this being so, the true God could never have been worshipped by them—by Abraham in particular—but Angels, only, prefiguring Christ. REPLY. XXXII. Almost everything, I say, presented itself to the Jews in the way of Figure. ARTICLE.