How the Holy Spirit is to be understood in the Father as in his image.
A still greater difficulty arises from what Athanasius says in his letter to Serapion: “The Son is in his Father as in his own image.” 
The Father, in fact, is not the image of the Son, but it is the Son who is the image of the Father.
But it is to be observed that here image is used improperly in the sense of exemplar; for thus it is sometimes used less than correctly.
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