The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 197

APOSTOLIC INSPIRATION And

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since in the outpouring the

Holy Spirit came to dwell in the which before He had been preparing, it is obvious that the difference of inspiration in the Old and the New Testament consists in the fact that the former was wrought upon the prophets from without, while the latter wrought upon the apostles from within, proceeding from the body of Christ. body of

Christ,

And this is the reason that the prophets give us more or less the impression of an inspiration independent of their personal, spiritual life, while the inspiration of the apostles acts almost always through the life of the soul. It is this very fact that offers to the error of the Ethical view its starting-point.

Surely the person and his conin the foreground than in the prophets. And yet in both prophet and apostle inspiration is that wholly extraordinary operation of the Holy Spirit whereby, in dition appear in the apostles

much more

a manner for us incomprehensible and to them not always conscious, they were kept from the possibility ot error.

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