On the Trinity and its Hypostasis?
"The Fourth Century......
Now with the heresy of the Ariomaniacs, which has corrupted the Church of God...These then teach three hypostases, just as Valentinus the [Gnostic] heresiarch first invented in the book entitled by him On the Three Natures. For he was the first to invent three hypostases and three persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he is discovered to have filched this from Hermes, Plato and Aristotle.
(Source: AHB Logan: Marcellus of Ancyra (Pseudo-Anthimus), On the Holy Church: Text, Translation and Commentary. Verses 8-9. Journal of Theological Studies, NS, Volume 51, Pt. 1, April 2000, p.95 )."
The Trinitarian Scholar: H. O. J. Brown in his book:
"Heresies, Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church"
Published by Hendrickson, Peabody (MA) 1988, page, 140.
"The language of the New Testament permits the Holy Spirit to be understood as an impersonal force or influence more readily than it does the Son...The attempt to develop an understanding of the Holy Spirit consistent with the Trinitarian...passages...came to fruition at Constantinople in 381...those who saw the Holy Spirit as a Person, were often heretical, for example, the Montanists."
It would seem that during the on-going apostasy foretold by the apostles, such a notion was already at work, that the 'pneuma hagion' (holy spirit) was already being seen as person of sorts and by Montanus!
Montanism
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