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Origen of the 3 d cent , says , * The holy spirit or ghost , who alone searcheth the deep things of God , revealeth God to whom he pleases : for the spirit breathes where he wills . " The same
interpretation of the text may be found in fragments of bis Greek works * . The anonymous author of a Discourse against Re-baptizing ,
referred by goodv critics to the 3 d cent , twice cites the text . —In the first he pleads , that since the spirit breathes where he will , he
way sometimes come on the unwo ) thy , as he did upon Saul " In the second , he cites the text again , understanding the first words of it as before , of the
holy spirit f . Cyril the elder , is supposed to have written his Catechetical Lectures about the year 348 , lie quotes the text as follows ^ speaking ' of regeneration in baptism :
c Bodies" says he , " are generated by the visible parents ; but souls are regenerated by faith ; for the spirit breathes where he will . " And in another lecture , he produces this text in pair . cc Nicodcmus understood not the
coming of the spirit and it was said unto him .: the spirit breathes where he zcill , % c . J " We go on to Hilary of Poictiers , who in 356 began a work , in which he addressed himself to God . 4 < That thy holy spirit is
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from Thee by him , i . e . the Sony I understand in my own wind ,
though I conceive it fiot in my imagination . For in thy spiritual things I dm did / according to the saying of thy only begotten : Marvel not that 1 said unto thec , ye must be born again . The spirit breathes where he will , " &c II «
Athanasius , who wrote soon after the Macedonian controversy , about the year 364 , barely cites the text in proof of the divinity of the holy spirit , as Hilary had done . He , in other places , lays great stress on the article ro
prefixed to ntvEV ^ oLj as a good general rule whereby , to know when the word denotes the Holy Gho $ t % . Didymus , who flourished about the year 370 , is by Maldonate , Calmet and others , reckoned amonor those who understood the
text , not of windhxW of the spirit ^ j \ About the same time lived Optatus , who cites this text , and takes in John iv . 24 . and says , God is spirit , or the spirit is God , and breathes where he will—Also
Apollinaris Junior , who flourished about 373 , speaks to the same purpose , saying , ** the spirit is unsearchable in his operation , doing all things as he will **' .
Nazianzen , about the year 379 ? speaks thus : " What ? will you not reverence even the power of the spirit , breathing upon whom , and when , and in what measure hs will if ?
* Orig . de Princlp . 1 . i ; ch . 3 . p . 61 . trim . 1 st . Ed . Bened , Ib . in Corder , Cat . in John . p . 90 8 c 91 . f Auctor de Rebabtiz . int . Op . Cyp . p . 364 . Ed . Beped . t ibid . p . 366 . Cyril Cat . p . 17 . Ed . Bened . Ibid . p . 17 . < Sc Cat . xvii . p . 273 . || Hi ! , de Tiinit . 1 . xii . Ed . Bened .
§ Athan . p . 651 ^—655 . Ed . Bened . T Did . de sp . sancto , p . 495 , to 504 . inter Op . Hieronyna , Tom . hr * Ed : Benedict . ** Opt . 1 ij . p . 42 . Ed . Paris . £ pollin , in Cord . Catn : in Joham . p . $ Q . ft Naz . Orat , xaiv . p . 430— 431 . and Orat , xxxvii . p . 6 x 0 .
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Observations on the use of the JVord ^ Tlveu ^ a . 89
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/33/
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