{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">7. But if this is to be understood as spoken of the Spirit\r\nof God, since Adam also is found to have prophesied of some\r\nthings, it may be taken not as of general application, but as\r\nconfined to those who are saints. Finally, also, at the time\r\nof the flood, when all flesh had corrupted their way before\r\nGod, it is recorded that God spoke thus, as of undeserving\r\nmen and sinners: “My Spirit shall not abide with those\r\nmen for ever, because they are flesh.”<a id=\"r97\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f97\"><sup>[97]</sup></a> By which it is\r\nclearly shown that the Spirit of God is taken away from all\r\nwho are unworthy. In the Psalms also it is written: “Thou\r\nwilt take away their spirit, and they will die, and return to\r\ntheir earth. Thou wilt send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall\r\nbe created, and Thou wilt renew the face of the earth;”<a id=\"r98\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f98\"><sup>[98]</sup></a>\r\nwhich is manifestly intended of the Holy Spirit, who, after\r\nsinners and unworthy persons have been taken away and\r\ndestroyed, creates for Himself a new people, and renews the\r\nface of the earth, when, laying aside, through the grace of\r\nthe Spirit, the old man with his deeds, they begin to walk\r\nin newness of life. And therefore the expression is competently\r\napplied to the Holy Spirit, because He will take up\r\nHis dwelling, not in all men, nor in those who are flesh, but\r\nin those whose land<a id=\"r99\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f99\"><sup>[99]</sup></a> has been renewed. Lastly, for this\r\nreason was the grace and revelation of the Holy Spirit\r\nbestowed by the imposition of the apostles’ hands after\r\nbaptism. Our Saviour also, after the resurrection, when\r\nold things had already passed away, and all things had\r\nbecome new, Himself a new man, and the first-born from\r\nthe dead, His apostles also being renewed by faith in His\r\nresurrection, says, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”<a id=\"r100\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f100\"><sup>[100]</sup></a> This is\r\ndoubtless what the Lord the Saviour meant to convey in\r\nthe Gospel, when He said that new wine cannot be put\r\ninto old bottles, but commanded that the bottles should be\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_40\">40</span>made new, <i>i.e.</i> that men should walk in newness of life, that\r\nthey might receive the new wine, <i>i.e.</i> the newness of grace\r\nof the Holy Spirit. In this manner, then, is the working\r\nof the power of God the Father and of the Son extended\r\nwithout distinction to every creature; but a share in the\r\nHoly Spirit we find possessed only by the saints. And\r\ntherefore it is said, “No man can say that Jesus is Lord,\r\nbut by the Holy Ghost.”<a id=\"r101\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f101\"><sup>[101]</sup></a> And on one occasion, scarcely\r\neven the apostles themselves are deemed worthy to hear the\r\nwords, “Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost\r\ncoming upon you.”<a id=\"r102\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f102\"><sup>[102]</sup></a> For this reason, also, I think it follows\r\nthat he who has committed a sin against the Son of man is\r\ndeserving of forgiveness; because if he who is a participator\r\nof the word or reason of God cease to live agreeably to reason,\r\nhe seems to have fallen into a state of ignorance or folly, and\r\ntherefore to deserve forgiveness; whereas he who has been\r\ndeemed worthy to have a portion of the Holy Spirit, and\r\nwho has relapsed, is, by this very act and work, said to be\r\nguilty of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Let no one\r\nindeed suppose that we, from having said that the Holy\r\nSpirit is conferred upon the saints alone, but that the benefits\r\nor operations of the Father and of the Son extend to good\r\nand bad, to just and unjust, by so doing give a preference\r\nto the Holy Spirit over the Father and the Son, or assert\r\nthat His dignity is greater, which certainly would be a very\r\nillogical conclusion. For it is the peculiarity of His grace\r\nand operations that we have been describing. Moreover,\r\nnothing in the Trinity can be called greater or less, since the\r\nfountain of divinity alone contains all things by His word\r\nand reason, and by the Spirit of His mouth sanctifies all\r\nthings which are worthy of sanctification, as it is written in\r\nthe Psalm: “By the word of the Lord were the heavens\r\nstrengthened, and all their power by the Spirit of His\r\nmouth.”<a id=\"r103\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f103\"><sup>[103]</sup></a> There is also a special working of God the Father,\r\nbesides that by which He bestowed upon all things the gift\r\nof natural life. There is also a special ministry of the Lord\r\nJesus Christ to those upon whom He confers by nature the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_41\">41</span>gift of reason, by means of which they are enabled to be\r\nrightly what they are. There is also another grace of the\r\nHoly Spirit, which is bestowed upon the deserving, through\r\nthe ministry of Christ and the working of the Father, in\r\nproportion to the merits of those who are rendered capable of\r\nreceiving it. This is most clearly pointed out by the Apostle\r\nPaul, when demonstrating that the power of the Trinity is\r\none and the same, in the words, “There are diversities of\r\ngifts, but the same Spirit; there are diversities of administrations,\r\nbut the same Lord; and there are diversities of\r\noperations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all.\r\nBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to\r\nprofit withal.”<a id=\"r104\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f104\"><sup>[104]</sup></a> From which it most clearly follows that\r\nthere is no difference in the Trinity, but that which is called\r\nthe gift of the Spirit is made known through the Son, and\r\noperated by God the Father. “But all these worketh that\r\none and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every one severally\r\nas He will.”<a id=\"r105\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f105\"><sup>[105]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER III. 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