Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 565

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THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION

§ 84.

men, but

of

(1 Thess.

ii.

as

it

is

in

truth, the

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word

God

of

13).

Evidently with them this inspiration was the working of Holy Spirit dwelling in them, and this indwelling de-

the

mands

full emphasis.

In the

first

place they had received

inworkings of the Holy Spirit before the Day of Pentecost, and, in breathing on them, Jesus had officially communicated Before Pentecost moreto them the gift of the Holy Ghost. over they had been regenerated, for Jesus had prayed, not that Peter might have faith, but that the faith which he had

might not

fail.

when

the

only

Nevertheless Jesus repeatedly declares that

Holy

Spirit shall have been sent

them from

the Father, shall real apostolical inspiration begin, as

on Pentecost the

2)

:

sermon

of Peter.

but

He

is

it

did

In the Old Covenant

Spirit stands truly " in the midst of

Holy

Ixiii.

in the

them "

(Isa.

not yet the formative principle (princi-

pium formans) for the circle. That circle was still national, and not yet (jecumenical. It only became such on the Pentecostal Day, when the Church appeared, liberated from the wrappings of Israel's national life, as an independent organNeither this having the Holy Spirit as its irvevfxa. mystery nor this difference can be more fully explained For our purpose it is enough, if the difference is here. ism,

that after Pentecost there was the indwelling Holy Spirit, while before that day there were merely radiations and inworkings as from without. From the nature of the case this was bound to give to inspiration an entirely modified form. Now it came no more as from without, but from within, and that same Holy Spirit, who, in us, prays for us with unutterable groanings, was able in like manner to use, guide, and enlighten the consciousness of the apostles, without any break taking place in them as of a

made

clear,

of the

duality

;

yea, without their

own

perception of

it.

To

this

is

added, as we observed, in the second place, that the impulse for the

working

of this inspiration lay in their official func-

Holy Spirit is thereby them, when, not excluded with as for instance, the Spirit says to Peter: " P>ehokl, three men seek thee" (Acts x. 19), or

tion

itself.

Dualistic action of the

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