The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 568

— LOVE

528

Holy Spirit was poured out. But even here \hQ primary meaning of the word must be retained, for by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit we understand the flowing down into our hearts, or into the Church, of a multitude of powers of the same kind that fill the that the

emptiness of the It

may

soul.

be objected

that in this thought is

— and

we

this deserves careful consideration

contradict our former statement, that

it

who takes poswe now say that it is,

the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Trinity,

session of the heart and dwells therein

not the Person

which

Ks

who

;

for

but a working, an

cojnes in,

element,

a power

But, instead of being contradictory, these two

poured out.

are the same; only, by their mutual connection, they give us a

more

correct insight

— and that

is just

a lighted lamp into a dark room, at the

same moment the

I

enter the room, but the light

what the Holy

I

is

am not

is

poured

carried into

Spirit does.

brightness of His Person

When

what we need.

I

carry

enter as the light-bearer, while

light is poured out in the room.

two should not be confounded. actly

/

When He

These

out, but the light.

it.

And

this is ex-

enters the heart the

poured out therein.

Holy Spirit is mentioned in a somewhat modified sense, but when we speak of the light the same Of an approaching light we say, " There comes the light," is true. altho we know that some one carries the light. At sunrise we say, " The sun is rising," altho it would be more correct to say: " The light of the sun is rising." In like manner the name of the Holy It is

Spirit is

true that in these cases the

used in Scripture in a twofold way

to the Third Person in the Trinity

;

secondly,

:

first,

with reference

with reference to the

heavenly brightness and blessed activity which He carries with Himself. And instead of being more or less incorrect, this twofold use of the name is much more correct with reference to the

Holy

Spirit than

when

it

refers to artificial light or to the sun.

We

should remember that there

and

its

is a difference between the lamp and that the immense body of the sun and But this is not so with refits light are also two different things. erence to the Holy Spirit. There is no difference between Himself

radiating light

and His operations.

;

We make

sentation, but in reality is,

there

They

He

it

works; and where

are the same.

the distinction to assist our repre-

has no existence.

He

Where

works, there

is

the

the

Holy Spirit Holy Spirit.

The one is even unthinkable without

the other.

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