The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 113

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OLD TESTAMENT REVELATION

IN

WRITING

spoken and in the Scripture brought His word to our souls. now that we may honor the Scripture.

He

73 is

silent

However,

it

should be noticed that in this divine speaking from is a certain order, unity, and regularity

Paradise to Patmos there

wherefore

we add

speaking was not confined to individuals, but, having a message for all the people, God spoke through His chosen prophets. That God can speak to a whole nation at once is proven by the events of Sinai. But it pleased Him not always to do this. First, the divine

On the contrary, He never spoke to them in that way afterward, but introduced prophetism instead. Hence the peculiar mission of prophetism is to receive the words of God and immediately to communicate them to the people. God speaks to Abraham what is for alone; but to Joel, Amos, etc., a message not for themselves, but for others to whom it must be conveyed. In connection with this we notice the fact that the prophet stands not alone, but

Abraham

in relation with a class of men among whom his mind was gradually prepared to speak to the people, and to receive the divine Oracle.

For the peculiar feature of prophecy was the condition of ecstasy, which differed greatly from the way by which God spoke to Moses. Secondly, these divine revelations are mutually related and, taken together, constitute a whole. There is first the foundation, then the superstructure, until finally the illustrious palace of the divine truth and knowledge

is completed. Revelation as a whole shows therefore a glorious plan, into which are dovetailed the

special revelations to individuals.

Thirdly, the speaking of the Lord, especially of the inward is peculiarly the work of the Holy Spirit, which, as we have found before, appears most strikingly when God comes into closest contact with the creature. And the consciousness is the most inti-

word,

mate part of man's being.

God

enters

clothed in

believer honor

Holy

Spirit.

Wherefore, as often as the Lord our

human consciousness human thoughts and

to

communicate His thoughts, the Scripture and the

speech,

and adore therein the comforting operation of the

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