The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 133

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THE MEDIATOR. XX.

The Holy

Spirit in the Mediator. *'

Who

through the Eternal Spirit Himself without spot to God." }Ieb. ix. 14, ofifered

The work of the Holy Spirit in the Person of Christ is not exhausted in the Incarnation, but appears conspicuously in the work of the Mediator. We consider this work in the development of His human nature ; in the cotisecration to His office ; in His humiliation unto death j in His resurrection, exaltation, and return in glory. First The work of the Holy Spirit in the development of the human

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nature in Jesus.

We have said before, to write the

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and now repeat, that we consider the

effort

Life of Jesus" either unlauful or its title a misnomer

a misnomer when, pretending to write a biography of Jesus, the writer simply omits to explain the psychological facts of His

unlawful "when he explains these facts from the

human

life

nature of

Jesus.

There never was a life of Jesus in the sense of a human, personal and the tendency to substitute the various biographies of Jesus of Nazareth for the simple Gospel narratives aims really at nothing else than to place the unique Person of the God-man on the same level with the geniuses and great men of the world to humanize Him, and thus to annihilate the Messiah in Him in other words, to secularize Him. And against this we solemnly protest with all the power that is in us. The God-human Person of the Lord Jesus did not live a life, but existence

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