The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 146

THE MEDIATOR

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life, upholds and qualifies our human nature, wrought the work of revelation, also prophets the and and prepared the body of Christ, adorned His human nature with gracious gifts, put these gifts into operation, installed Him into

creation animates all in Israel

His

office,

led

Him

into temptation, qualified

Him

to cast out

and finally enabled Him to finish that eternal work of satisfaction whereby our souls are redeemed. This explains why Beza and Gomarus could not be fully satisfied with Calvin's exposition. Calvin said that it was the working of devils,

the Holy Spirit apart from the divinity of the Son. And they felt was something lacking. For the Son made Himself of

that there

no reputation and became obedient; but if all this is the work of the Holy Spirit, then nothing is left of the work of the Son. And to escape from this, they adopted the other extreme, and declared that the Eternal Spirit had reference only to the Son according to His divine nature an exposition that can not be accepted, for the divine nature is never designated as spirit. Yet they were not altogether wrong. The reconciliation of these contrary views must be looked for in the diflEerence between the existence of the Holy Spirit without us, and Bis 7Vorking within And us as received by our nature and identified with its own working. inasmuch as the Son, by His Godhead, enabled His human nature,

—

in the

awful conflict with eternal death, to effect this union, there-

fore the apostle confesses that the sacrifice of the Mediator

rendered by the working of the Eternal

Spirit.

was

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