From the council of the city of Rome under Pope Damasus. It was said: First we must treat of the sevenfold Spirit who rests upon Christ. The Spirit of wisdom: Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. The Spirit of understanding: I will give you understanding and will instruct you in the way in which you shall walk. The Spirit of counsel: and his name shall be called the angel of great counsel. The Spirit of might, as was said above: Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. The Spirit of knowledge, on account of the eminence of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, as the Apostle says. The Spirit of truth: I am the life and the truth. The Spirit of fear: the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. Manifold, moreover, is the dispensation of the names of Christ. Lord, because he is Christ;
the Word, because he is the Son of God, because only-begotten from the Father; man, because born of the Virgin; priest, because he offered himself as a holocaust; shepherd, because guardian; worm, because he rose again; mountain, because strong; way, because through him is the upright entrance into life; lamb, because he suffered; cornerstone, because he is the structure; master, because revealer of life; sun, because illuminator; true, because from the Father; life, because creator; bread, because flesh; Samaritan, because guardian and merciful; Christ, because anointed; Jesus, because saviour; God, because from God; angel, because messenger; bridegroom, because mediator; vine, because by his blood we have been redeemed; lion, because king; rock, because foundation; flower, because chosen; prophet, because he reveals things to come.
For the Holy Spirit is not the Spirit of the Father alone, nor of the Son alone, but the Spirit of the Father and of the Son; for it is written: If anyone loves the world, the spirit of the Father is not in him. Again it is written: but whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ, this one is not his. Therefore, when the Father and the Son are named, the Holy Spirit is understood: of whom the Son himself in the Gospel says: that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, and he shall receive of mine and shall announce it to you. From Baronius, on the year 382, number 19.
After all these prophetic, evangelical, and apostolic Scriptures which we have set forth above, on which the catholic Church is founded by the grace of God, we have thought it should also be made known that, although the catholic Church is spread throughout the world as a single bridal chamber of Christ, the holy Roman Church has nevertheless been set before the other Churches by no synodal decrees, but obtained the primacy by the evangelical voice of our Lord and Saviour: You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and to you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind upon earth shall be bound also in heaven:
and whatever you loose upon earth shall be loosed also in heaven. There was added too the fellowship of the most blessed apostle Paul, the vessel of election, who not at a different time, as the heretics chatter, but at one and the same time, on one and the very same day, contending in glorious death together with Peter in the city of Rome under Caesar Nero, was crowned; and equally they consecrated the aforesaid Roman Church to Christ the Lord, and by their presence and venerable triumph set it before all the others in the whole world. The Roman Church is therefore the first see of the apostle Peter, having no stain nor wrinkle nor anything of the kind. The second see, however, is at Alexandria, consecrated in the name of the blessed Peter by Mark his disciple and evangelist;
and he himself, sent into Egypt by the apostle Peter, preached the word of truth and accomplished a glorious martyrdom. The third see, moreover, is at Antioch, of his most blessed apostle Peter, which is held honourable for this reason: that he dwelt there first before he had come to Rome, and there for the first time the name of Christians, of the new people, took its beginning. Thus far Gelasius too. The Quesnellian codex has, besides, something concerning the see of Jerusalem and of Ephesus.