The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 178

138 is

THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY

the Creator of

human language; and without

SPIRIT

the injury and de-

basing influence of sin the connection between the Holy Ghost and

our speech would have been complete.

Human

But

sin has

broken the

damaged damaged by the weakening of the organs of speech; by the separation of tribes and nations; by the passions of the soul; by the darkening of the understanding; and principally by the lie which has entered in. Hence that infinite distance between this pure and genuine human language which, as the direct operation of the Holy Spirit upon the human mind, should have manifested itself, and the empirically connection.

language

existing languages that

now

is

:

separate the nations

— a difference like

unto that between the glorious Adam and the deformed Hottentot. But the difference is not intended to remain. Sin will disappear. What sin destroyed will be restored. In the day of the Lord, at the wedding-feast of the Lamb, In what

way?

all

the redeemed will understand one

By the restoration

of the pure and original redeemed, which is born from the operation of the Holy Spirit upon the human mind. And of that great, still-tarrying event the Pentecost miracle is the germ and

another.

language upon the

lips of the

the beginning; hence

it

bore

its distinctive

marks.

In the midst of

the Babeldom of the nations, on the day of Pentecost, the one pure

and mighty human language was revealed which one day all will speak, and all the brethren and sisters from all nations and tongues will understand.

And this was wrought by the Holy Spirit. They spake as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance. They spoke a heavenly language to praise

God— not

of angels, but a language above the influence

of sin.

Hence the understanding of this language was also a work of At Jerusalem, only they understood it who were specially wrought upon by the Holy Spirit. The others understood it not. And at Corinth it was not comprehended by the masses, but by him alone to whom it was given of the Holy Ghost.

the Holy Spirit,

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