The Father is the Source of all things and the fountainhead of the Godhead. The Son is eternally begotten from the Father, the Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father--as from a SOURCE, as the Greek word ekporevete in the Creed states. The Latin word procedit does not have the meaning \"as from a source,\" so this opens the door for confusion about the procession of the Holy Spirit, at least for later Western theologians with little background in Greek.
(I may have my Greek and Latin forms wrong, b/c I don\'t have the texts in front of me.)
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