The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 82

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THE CREATION

42 world.

The Holy

Spirit

even bestows

a nation at one time and withdraws

it

artistic skill

at another.

and talent upon Three centuries

ago Holland surpassed all Europe in weaving, making porcelain, and engraving. But how great the subsequent

printing, painting,

decline in this respect

What we

—altho now progress again appears.

find in Israel is related to this.

capacity for knowledge had caused

man

This very thirst and

to fall.

The

first

impetus

was given to artistic skill among Cain's descendants; the Jubals and the Jabals and the Tubal-Cains were the first artists. And yet this whole development, altho feeding upon the treasures of God, departed more and more from Him, while His own people utterly lacked it. In the days of Samuel there was no smith found in all the land of Canaan. Hence the Spirit's coming upon Bezaleel and Aholiab, upon Othniel and Samson, upon Saul and David, signifies something more than a mere imparting of artistic skill and talent namely, the restoration of what sin had corrupted and defiled. And thus the illumination of a Bezaleel links the Holy Spirit's work in the material creation and that in the dispensation of grace.

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