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divinity of the Holy Spirit and the equality
of the three persons of the Trinity. The
Nicene Creed was amended and the Council's
teachings on the Holy Spirit were added
to it: "We believe also in the Holy Spirit, the
uncreated and the perfect who spoke through the
Law, the Prophets and the Gospels; who proceeds
from the Father, who with the Father and the Son
together is worshipped and together glorified."
The amended form of the Nicene Creed is
referred to as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan
Creed.
Summarizing the teachings of the Ar-
menian Church on the Holy Spirit, St. Ner-
ses the Gracious states: "We confess the Holy
Spirit as the true Spirit of God. And, because of
His name, we do not compare Him with the
created spirits, as we do not equal the only and
by-nature Son of God with by-grace sons of God
(i.e. human beings). The Spirit being called the
Spirit of God differs from the created spirits.
Proceeding from the Father, who has no begin-
ning, the Holy Spirit is a perfect person without
beginning, inconceivable and ineffable for us, the
created beings. As for the cause of His essence,
He is only from the Father. And as for mode and
distribution of grace, He is equal to the Father
and to the Son… He has neither beginning in
time nor change or alteration like created beings.
He is the scrutator of the inscrutable depths of
God and the revealer of His hidden mysteries. He
is consubstantial with the Father and the Son