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on high " (Luke xxiv. 49) " It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I And when He is come, He will depart, I will send Him unto you. reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment " (John xvi. 7, 8). And lastly: He commanded them not to depart from ;

Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father,

Me

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which, saith

John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. And ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon He, ye have heard of

you" (Acts

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5,

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third difficulty is

met by the

fact that the

of the apostles agree with the teaching of Scripture.

communications

They actually

tarried in Jerusalem, without even attempting to preach during the

days between the ascension and Pentecost. And they explain the Pentecost miracle as the fulfilment of the prophecies of Joel and Jesus.

They

see in

it

something new and extraordinary; and show

was considered that a man who stood knew nothing of the Holy Ghost. Ephesus being asked, " Have ye received the

us clearly that in their day

it

outside the Pentecost miracle

For the disciples of Holy Ghost?" answered naively: "We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost." Wherefore it can not be doubted that the Holy Scripture means to teach and convince us that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost was His first and real coming into the Church. But how can this be reconciled with Old Testament passages such as these? " Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; for I am with you, and be strong, O Joshua, the High Priest; and My Spirit remaineth among you : fear ye not" (Hag. ii. 4, 5); and again " Then He remembered the days of old, Moses, and His people, saying. Where is He that brought them up out of the sea with the Shepherd of His flock? where is He that put His Holy Spirit within them?" (Isa. Ixiii. 1 1). David is conscious that he had received the Holy Spirit, for after his fall he prays: " Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me" (Psalm li. 13). There was a sending forth of the Spirit, for we read " Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, and they are created and Thou renewest the face of the earth " (Psalm civ. 30), There seems to have been an actual descending of the Holy Spirit, for Ezekiel says " The Spirit of the Lord fell upon me " (chap. xi. Micah testified " Truly I am full of the power by the Spirit of 5). the Lord" (chap. iii. 8). Of John the Baptist it is written, that he

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