THE IIOLV SPIRIT AND DIS WORh. Holy Spirit of God is denoted. Their peculiar signifi- cation, therefore, in particular places, is to be collected and determined from the subject matter treated of in them, and other especial circumstances of them. This was first attempted by the most learned Didymus of Alexandria, whose words therefore 1 have set down at large, and shall cast his observations into a more per- spicuous method, with such additions as are needful, for the further clearing of the whole matter. C In general, nn and ,ssugax signify a wind or spirit; that is, any thing which moves and is not seen. So the air, in a violent agitation is called nn, Gen. viii. I. vsan5v art mr<Sa -twn And God made a wind or spirit, that is, a strong and Quia vero Spiritus Vucabulum multa significai enumerandum est breviterquibns rebus nomea jus spinier: Vacance Spiritus et Ventus in Ezechiele; Teesiam partem disperges in Spiritum;. hoc est in Venturo. Quod si voles seemedum. historiam scribere.quodscriptum est; spiritu violento conteras naves Tharcis, non aliad ibi spiritus quern ventus accipitur: Nec non Solonon inter multa hoc quogpe menus a Deo accepit ut scirit violentias spirituum; non ailed in hoc se eccepisse demon- strans, quam scirerapidos ventorum flatus, et quibns cassis eorum natura Suhsistat. Vocatur et anima *Mies t nt in Jacobi Epistola. Quomado corpus teem sine spirite' mortuum est; m nifestissime enim spirites hic sihil aliad nisi anima nencupater. Juxta quam intelligentiem Stephanus mar um m Spirit vSpirituel s; Domine inquit Jesu suscipe Spirituel meum.r lltud q toque quod in Ecclesiusetcedicitur, guis soit an spiritus bominis ascendat casine, et Spiritus Jumenti descendat deorsum. Con- siderandum ultimo nom et pecudum.anim,r spiritus appellentur. Diciter edam excepta anima, et escoplo spirits sanctO, Spiritus alias quisesse homine de quo Paulus oribit: quis egim scii hominum eagsm unt hominis, nisi spirites hominis qui ineo est" Sedet in alio loco idem Apostolus anostro spirits spirituel Dei siMemens ait ipse spirites resti- eo mperbibet Spiritui nostro; hoc significane, quoti Spiritus Dei, id st, spiritus sanctus testimonium Spiritui nostro prabeat, germnenc dixi- se spirieum liominis. Ad Thessalonicensesqueque, integer, inquit spiritus vesto et anima et camus.--Appellentur queque superna ra- tionabilesyue virtutes, qua soler Scripture'Angulos es Fortitudines note. Mere, ocabulo spinims;, ut ibi, qui faces Angelot trios Spiritus; et alibi, nonne rannes sentadministratores spiritus? . Rationales morgue eliocrea- taro et de Loua in=hem spunte peofluentes, spiritus passim, et spirites appellantur immondi; sicut ibi, cum autem spiritus immnndus exierit ab heroine, ea iii ro sequeatibus; assumit septem alios spirites tie/ muores se. Spiritus quoque,Dremones in Evangelioappellantur: sed hoc notan- dum, nunquam simpliciter spirituel sed cum aligne additamento spirituel significa ontrarium, ut .spiritus im undes, et spiritus Dremonis; lu veroqui idi sent spiritus absgne ulto additamento spiritus sirop'.;cites appellantur. Sciendumquogte good nomen spiritus et voluntatemho- mis et animi sententiam-tons.. Volens quippe Apostolus non solnel carpere sed et mense sanctum esse, id est nos tantum corpore, sed et motu cordis interno, ait, ut titis sancii corpore et spirito, yoluntatem Spirite et corpore opera significane. Considera alitim hoc ipsum in Esala sones quod scriptum est; et scient qui spirit,, errant, intellectuel.__ mighty wind to pass over the earth, for the drying and removal of the waters. So meso,wx is used, John iii. 8. r. TO 'seas: daa : ; rt The wind bloweth where it list- as eth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whether it goeth;" which is a proper description of this first signification of the word. It is an agitation of the air which is unseen. So Psal. i. 4. And in this sense sometimes it signifies a violent anti strong wind; that is, mgtnr merle run, I Kings xix. 11. And sometimes a cool and soft wind, or a light easy agitation of the air, such as often ariseth in the evenings of the spring or summer; so Gen. iii. 8. God walled in the garden, nonmine, in the cool of the day; that is, when the evening air began to breathe gently, and moderate the heat of the day. So in the poet; Solis ad occasum sunsfrigidus aera Vesper tenzperat. Virgil. Georg. 8.. alt the going down of the sun, when the cold evening tempers the heat of the air. And some think this to be the sense ofthat place, Psal..civ. 4. Who maheth hisangels rnmi spirits;- swift, agile,_ powerful, us mighty winds. . But the reader may consult our exposition on Heb. i. 7.. Sect 8:,--Thin is one signification of the word, or, this is one thing denoted by it in the scripture.. So, among runny other places expressly, Amos iv. 13.. for lo, ear, Hethat formeth-the mountains, and creátethz the spirit, thatis, - thewind. - The LXIh render Et saper amain vocebulbmspiritus; altiorem et mpsticum iñ- scripteris. sanctis significat intellectum;. ut ibi litera ocdidit, Spiritus serum -sivificat, lgacc junta possibdintemnosedingen i, gent rea spiritus significet ateigimus. Non unquam antem spiritus et Dominus nosier Jesus. Christus, id eat Dei Filins appellatur. Dominus auteur spiritus est ut ante diximes; ibi etiam illud adjnnximus, spiritus Deus est, nonjunta nominis . mu on manna junta roe substantleeque Iorroadlnec recess-aria devoted'sumus, ut quia. frequenter Appellatio- Spiritus, in Scripmris est respersa Divinis, non Iabam,rin aomine sed. unummradquesem,ndum locorumvarietateset intelligenties accipiames. Omni.itaque studio acdiligentia vocabulumSpiritus, obi et quomedoap- pellatmn sit contemplantes sophism.atn eorum et fraudulentas Decipulas mrteramusqui Spiritumsanctum hsserunt creaturam. Legerates enim in: Prophe ta ego confirmavi tonitruum, et ereavispiritism, ignomntia mut- tiplicis is hoc parte.Sermonis putaverunt Spiritum Sanctum ex hoc voca-- bulo dem nstrmi; cum n r- pro entiarum Spiritus n se enture s s. Ergo ut peusinouti sumir, quomodo unumquodgne dictum sit, consider- emus ne forte per ignorantiam inbasahrum decidamos erroris. Didjei,. de Sp. Sanct. lib. 3,
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