530 PART I. —THEOLOGY. [Ch. YIH - The Holy Spirit.
quas potius ipse ferebat et complectentibus firmamentum clabat con- gruum motum et limitem prgefinitum. . . . [Hie est] spiritus vitje cujus vivificus calor animat omnia et fovet et provehit et foecundat. Hie Spiritus Sanctus omnium viventium anima, ita largitate sua se omnibus abundanter infundit, ut liabeant omnia rationabilia et irra- tionabilia secundum genus suum ex eo quod sunt et quod in suo or- dine sufB naturae competentia agunt. Non quod ipse sit substantialis anima singulis, sed in se singulariter manens, de plenitudine sua distributor magnificus proprias efficientias singulis (Jividit et largi- tur ; et quasi sol omnia calefaciens, subjecta omnia nutrit, et absque ulla sui diminutione, integritatem suam de inexhausta abundantia, quod satis est, et suflficit omnibus, commodat et impartit." ^
The Spirit the Source of all Intellectual Life. The Spirit is also represented as the source of all intellectual life. • When man was created it is said God " breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man became (n'Tl !27.p3) a living soul." (Gen. ii. 7.) Job xxxii. 8, says, The inspiration of the Almighty giveth men understanding, i. e., a rational nature, for it is explained by saying, He " teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven." (Job xxxv. 11.) The Scriptures ascribe in like manner to Him all special or extraordinary gifts. Thus it is said of Bezaleel, " I have called " him, " and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass." (Ex. xxxi. 2, 3, 4.) By his Spirit God gave Moses the wisdom requisite for his high duties, and when he was commanded to devolve part of his burden upon the seventy elders, it was said, " I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them." (Num. xi. 17.) Joshua was appointed to succeed Moses, because in him was the Spirit. (Num. xxvii. 18.) In like manner the Judges, who from time to time were raised up, as emergency demanded, were qualified by the Spirit for their peculiar work, whether as rulers or as warriors. Of Othniel it is said, " The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel and went out to war." (Judges iii. 10.) So the Spirit of the Lord is said to have come upon Gideon and on Jephthah and on Samson. When Saul offended God, the Spirit of the Lord is said to have departed from him. (1 Sam. xvi. 14.) When Samuel anointed David, "The Spirit of the Lord came upon" him " from that day forward." (1 Sam. xvi. 13.) In like 1 Works, edit. BremjE, 1690, ou p. 61 of the second set in the Opuscnla.