The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 119

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Cbapter.

THE INCARNATION OF THE WORD.* XVII. Like One of Us. " But a body

Me."

x. 5.

completion of the Old Testament did not finish the work Holy Spirit undertook for the whole Church. The Scrip-

The that the

may

ture

Thou hast prepared

Heb.

be the instrument whereby to act upon the consciousness and to open his eyes to the beauty of the divine life,

of the sinner

but

it

can not impart that

life to

by another work of the Holy

the Church.

Spirit, viz.,

Hence

it is

followed

thQ preparation of the body

of Christ.

The well-known words of Psalm xl. 6, 7 " Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire 7?iine ears Thou hast pierced ; burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: :

;

in the

volume

of the

book

it is

written of me,"

— are rendered by St.

Paul " Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldst not, but a body Thou hast prepared me ; in burnt-offerings and sin-offerings Thou hast no :

lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me." do not discuss how the words, " Mine ears hast Thou pierced," can mean also, " A body Thou hast prepared me." For our present purpose it is immaterial whether one says with Junius ; " The ear is

pleasure:

We

of the body; by the piercing of the ear hearing becomes and only by the hearing does the body become an instrument of obedience " or with another " As the body of the slave became an instrument of obedience by the piercing of the ear, so

a

member

possible

;

;

Owing tion of the

:

to the recent publication of the author's work,

Word,"

this subject is presented here in

"The

Incarna-

an abbreviated form.

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