[256]Sc. in Dionysius’s letter to Euphranor: cf. John x. 30, xvii. 11, 21, 22. The extract on p. 106 below deals with the same thought more fully. In both places Dionysius’s language is based on Philo’s discussion of the λόγος ἐνδιάθετος and the λόγος προφορικός (the conceived and the expressed word), _de vita Mosis_, p. 230, Cohn. [257]i. e. _from_ the Father and _through_ the Son: Dionysius seems to have derived this view of the Holy Spirit’s Procession from his master, Origen, though he is thinking here rather of the Mission of the Spirit into the Church and its members than of the eternal and necessary relations of the three Persons in the Holy Trinity to one another, as the sentences that follow indicate. [258]_Lit._ in their hands: a striking expression which Athanasius borrows from Dionysius in his _Exposition of the Faith_. [259]This is what Dionysius of Rome had imputed to our Dionysius, though without the word “wholly” he would not have altogether discarded the position. [260]Λόγος is translated throughout this passage by “speech” (_i. e._ uttered words), except in the last clause, where it refers to the Son Himself and where it must be rendered by “Word” as usual: but obviously “speech” is only part of the full meaning of λόγος. The whole passage should be compared with the preceding extract. [261]Ps. xliv. (xlv.) 1: here R.V. translates λόγον ἀγαθόν, “a goodly matter,” in accordance with A.V. [262]The word used (ἐγκυκλεῖν) suggests the scenic device of the ἐγκύκληµα, by which some kind of change of scene was brought on to the stage in the Greek theatre: see _Classical Dict._, s.v. INDEX Absolution, 43, 60 f. Ælia (Jerusalem), 52 Æmilianus, Governor of Pannonia, 14, 65 Prefect of Egypt, 16, 27, 46 f. Alexander, Bishop of Jerusalem, 51 Bishop of Tyre, 52 a martyr, 38 Alexander Severus, Emperor, 12, 66 Alexandrians, letter to, 28, 70 ff. Alogi referred to, 84 Ammon, a martyr, 40 Ammonarion, a martyr, 39 Antioch, Council of, 10, 51, 103 Apollonia, a martyr, 36 Arabia, 10, 41, 52 Aristotle referred to, 28, 95 Arius, heresy of, 20, 56, 108 Ater, a martyr, 39 Athanasius, 9, 19 ff., 103 ff. Baptism of heretics, 15, 26, 51 ff., 59 Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea, 9, 22, 80 Basilides, letter to, 26, 29, 76 ff. Benson, Archbishop, 14, 34, 51, 52, 55 Besas, a martyr, 38 Bethune-Baker, Dr., 22 Bithynia, Churches of, 52