88. You read, too, in the Gospel that the
Angel descended at the appointed time into the pool and troubled the
water, and he who first went down into the pool was made
whole. S. John v. 4. What did the Angel declare in this type
but the descent of the Holy Spirit, which was to come to pass in our
day, and should consecrate the waters when invoked by the prayers of
the priest? That Angel, then, was a herald of the Holy Spirit,
inasmuch as by means of the grace of the Spirit medicine was to be
applied to our infirmities of soul and mind. The Spirit, then,
has the same ministers as God the Father and Christ. He fills all
things, possesses all things, works all and in all in the same manner
as God the Father and the Son work.