Peter Griffin
por hao paoThe Filioque is the theological doctrine that the Holy Spirit eternally and hypostatically proceeds from the Father and/through the Son as from one principle in a single spiration. In other words, the Holy Spirit receives His being and nature from the Father and the Son (through eternal spiration) just as the Son receives His being and nature from the Father (through eternal generation). The Eastern Orthodox Church rejects the Filioque and instead teaches that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone. However, as we will see, the Bible implicitly teaches the Filioque and the early Church Fathers (both Eastern and Western) almost universally taught the doctrine. Since the biblical and patristic evidence for the Filioque is too exhaustive, we will only look at a few examples.
Yes there is a Bible verse about it like .
John 5:19 - “So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.”The Son is the perfect image of God the Father (Col 1:15, Heb 1:3). If the Father eternally spirates the Holy Spirit, the Son must also eternally spirate the Holy Spirit in the same manner lest He ceases to be the Father's perfect Son and image.]
John 16:14-15 - “He [the Holy Spirit] will glorify me [Jesus], for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”The Son receives all that He has (including His being and nature) from the Father. The Holy Spirit, likewise, receives all that He has (including His nature and being) from the Son.]Galatians 4:6 - “And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'”
Philippians 1:19 - “[F]or I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,”
[The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of the Father (Matt 10:20, Rom 8:11) because He eternally proceeds from the Father. Therefore, if He is called the Spirit of the Son, it must be because He eternally proceeds also from the Son.]
Revelation 22:1 - “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb”
[The Holy Spirit is described as “rivers of living water” (John 7:38-39) and here He is said to flow (proceed) from both God (the Father) and the Lamb (the Son).]
Yes there are many eastern and latin church fathers that accepts the filioque like
St. Hilary of Poitiers which says “Concerning the Holy Spirit . . . it is not necessary to speak of him who must be acknowledged, who is from the Father and the Son, his sources”
St. Ambrose - “The Holy Spirit, when he proceeds from the Father and the Son, does not separate himself from the Father and does not separate himself from the Son”
St. Augustine - “[I]t must be confessed that the Father and the Son are the principle of the Holy Spirit, not two principles, but just as the Father and the Son are one God . . . relative to the Holy Spirit, they are one principle”
St. Fulgentius of Ruspe - “Hold most firmly and never doubt in the least that the same Holy Spirit who is Spirit of the Father and of the Son, proceeds from the Father and the Son”
Athanasian Creed - “[W]e worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity . . . The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
Didymus the Blind - “So too the Son is said to receive from the Father the very things by which he subsists. For neither has the Son anything else except those things given him by the Father, nor has the Holy Spirit any other substance than that given him by the Son”
St. Epiphanius of Salamis - “The Father always existed and the Son always existed, and the Spirit breathes from the Father and the Son”
St. Cyril of Alexandria - “Since the Holy Spirit when he is in us effects our being conformed to God, and he actually proceeds from the Father and Son, it is abundantly clear that he is of the divine essence, in it in essence and proceeding from it”
St. Maximus the Confessor - “By nature the Holy Spirit in his being takes substantially his origin from the Father through the Son who is begotten"
and lastly
St. John Damascene - “And the Holy Spirit is the power of the Father revealing the hidden mysteries of his divinity, proceeding from the Father through the Son in a manner known to himself, but different from that of generation”
