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Lectures on the New Testament Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Lectures on the New Testament Doctrine of the Holy Spirit Author:William Kelly General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: W.H. Broom Subjects: Holy Spirit Religion / Christian Theology / Pneumatology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this... more » book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Hector 17. John xx. 17-23. If there is no part of Scripture, perhaps, which has not suffered from being dislocated from its context, there are few portions which have been injured more by this unnatural divorce than the one which I have just read. It is impossible to enter into the force of the particular communications, the dealing of the Lord with Mary Magdalene, and the words of the Lord as well as His acts on the same day at even, unless we bear in mind that it is in the strictest connection with His resurrection from the dead, and this, too, as the Son of God. It is by raising dead men that He is defined as such. (Bom. i. 4.) This emphatically is the view the Holy Ghost takes of Him in this chapter -- not as raising others, but as rising Himself. The perfect ease of the circumstances, the undisturbed clothes laid not confusedly but in their due order, the napkin that was about His head in one place, the rest of the linen garments in another, -- these were the evidence to any one, who looked upon them with the least discerning eye, that all was done as peacefully, whatever the glory of it, as when a man rises from the bed on which he has spent a night of rest. In truth, it was the Son of God that had accomplished that work of grace on which He had been sent of the Father. It was not merely as an object of God's power raised from the dead. This istrue in its place and season, and elsewhere enforced. God did raise Him from the dead; and Paul and Peter insist on it distinctly. But it is also true that ...« less