The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 71

THE HOST OF HEAVEN AND OF EARTH

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made, and the plan or model was in the divine counsel, yet a special act of the Holy Spirit was needed to cause them to be. This is still plainer in view of the fact that neither passage refers to the_/^/^/ creation, but to a man and animals formed later. For Job speaks not of Adam and Eve, but of himself. He says: "The spirit of God hath made vie, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." In Psalm civ. David means not the monsters of the deep created in the beginning, but those that were walking the paths of the sea while he was singing this psalm. If, therefore, the bodies of existing man and of mammals are not immediate creations, but are taken from the flesh and blood, the nature and kind of existent beings, then it is more evident that the hovering of the Holy Spirit over the unformed is a present act and that therefore His creative work was to bring out the life already hidden in chaos, i.e., in the ;

germs

of

life.

This agrees with what was said at first of the general character " To lead to its destiny " is to bring forth the hidden of His work. life,

to cause the hidden beauty to reveal itself, to rouse into activity

the slumbering energies.

Only

it as a work performed in successive by the Father, whose finished work was taken up by the Son, after which the Holy Spirit completed the work thus prepared. Such representations are unworthy of God. There is distribution, no division, in the divine activities wherefore Isaiah declares that the Spirit of the Lord, i.e., the Holy Spirit, throughout the entire work of creation, from the beginning yea, from before the beginning directed all that was to come.

stages

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us not represent

first

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