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calling.’ (4:4.)

Here a personal reference to the Holy Spirit seems to be foreign to the context, though His work is recognised in the formation of the Church, and the informing spirit of the Christian Society is necessarily in fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

‘And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed (cf. 1:13, Apoc. 7:3 ff.) unto a day of redemption.’ (4:30.)

‘The sword of the Spirit.’ (6:17.) The sword which the Spirit provides and through which it acts. With these Ephesian passages are to be compared

Thess. 1:5 ejn pneuvmati aJgivw/ kai; plhroforiva/ pollh'/ . Cor. 6:11 ejn tw'/ pneuvmati tou' qeou' hJmw'n .

Cor. 12:3 ejn pneuvmati qeou' lalw'n ejn pn. aJgivw/ . Cor. 13 ejn eJni; pneuvmati pavnte" eij" e}n sw'ma ejbaptivsqhmen . Cor. 6:6 ejn pneuvmati aJgivw/, ejn ajgavph/ ajnupokrivtw/ (cf. Gal. 5:22). Rom. 8:9 oujk ejste; ejn sarkiv, ajllj ejn pneuvmati, ei[per pneu'ma qeou' oijkei' ejn uJmi'n .

Rom. 9:1, 14:17, 15:16 ejn pn. aJgivw/ . Phil. 1:27 o{ti sthvkete ejn eJni; pneuvmati . Col. 1:8 th;n uJmw'n ajgavphn ejn pneuvmati .

Tim. 3:16 ejdikaiwvqh ejn pneuvmati . Pet. 1:12 t. eujaggelisamevnwn uJma'" pneuvmati aJgivw/ ajpostalevnti ajpj oujranou' . Jude 20 ejn pneuvmati aJgivw/ proseucovmenoi .

Apoc. 1:10, 4:2, 17:3, 21:10.

Doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

By St John glimpses are opened to us of the absolute tri-personality of God. From the statement that ‘God is Love’ —Love involving a subject, and an object, and that which unites both—we gain the idea of a tri-personality in an Infinite Being. In the Unity of Him, Who is One, we acknowledge the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in the interrelation of Whom we can see Love fulfilled.

Other Apostolic writers, as St John elsewhere, deal with the Trinity revealed in the work of Redemption—the ‘Economic Trinity.’

St Paul, in 1 Cor. 12:4-6 had written: diairevsei" de; carismavtwn eijsivn, to; de; aujto; pneu'ma: kai; diairevsei" diakoniw'n eijsivn, kai; oJ aujto;" kuvrio": kai; diairevsei" ejnerghmavtwn eijsivn, oJ de; aujto;" qeo;" oJ ejnergw'n ta; pavnta ejn pa'sin , in 2 Cor. 13:13 hJ cavri" t. kurivou hJmw'n jI. Cr. k. hJ ajgavph t. qeou' k. hJ koinwniva t. aJgivou pneuvmato" meta; pavntwn uJmw'n , and in Rom. 15:30 parakalw' de; uJma'", dia; t. kurivou hJmw'n jI. Cr. k. dia; t. ajgavph" tou' pneuvmato" sunagwnivsasqaiv moi ejn t. proseucai'" uJpe;r ejmou' pro;" t. qeovn .

In the Epistle to the Ephesians the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is brought into sight in more than one passage.

First in the Hymn of Praise (Eph. 1:3-14) which immediately follows the opening salutation, the work of each Person of the Holy Trinity is shewn:—of the Father ( oJ qeo;" kai; path;r tou' kurivou hJmw'n jI. Cr .) in the eternal purpose of His love (Eph. 1:4-6): of the Son ( t. hjgaphmevnw/ ) in His Incarnation (vv. 7-12): of the Holy Spirit ( tw'/ pneuvmati th'" ejpaggeliva" tw'/ aJgivw/ ) giving to believers the pledge of a


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