The Person of the Holy Spirit - Table of Contents

2. The Holy Spiiit in Relation to the Glorification of Christ.
From the fact that the Holy Spirit had part in the resurrection of Christ it may be assumed that He also had part in the
glorification of Christ. On this subject, however, the Scriptures are silent. As Kuyper says, “The work of the Holy Spirit in
the exaltation of Christ is not so easily defined. The Scripture never speaks of it in connection with His ascension, His sitting
at the right hand of the Father, nor with the Lord’s second coming.”17 From the nature of the Holy Spirit we may assume
that He would be related to the blessed estate of our Savior. From His work in us, we would assume a most intimate relation
between the glorified Savior and the indwelling Spirit. Of the Spirit we learn not only of His sufferings and death, but we are
also taught the power of the resurrection of Christ and the riches of the glory of His grace. Even as the Holy Spirit was
infinitely faithful in every ministry to Christ, so in the experience of the Christian whether in the flesh or in glory the
ministrations of the Spirit are infinitely wonderful.
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(To be continued in the April-June Number, 1941)
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The difference between Christian theologians and Christian laymen is only a difference in degree; one class blends itself
with the other; there are in Christianity no exoteric and esoteric systems. Every reflecting laymen acquires at the present day
some theological education. The commentaries on the Bible, the systematic instruction in the Catechism, the popular
histories of the church constitute the beginning of his theological course. Unless he have some insight into the faith which he
adopts, then is he blind in his faith.-Bibliotheca Sacra, February, 1844.
1 George Park Fisher, History of Christian Doctrine, p. 56.
3 A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, pp. 91-92.
4 A System of Christian Doctrine, Vol. III, p. 341.
5 Dogmatic Theology, Vol. II, p. 296.
6 Op. cit., p. 297.
7 Letter 164, quoted by Shedd, Loc. cit.
8 Op. cit., p. 95.
9 Cf. Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, Vol. II, pp. 192-203.
10 Op. cit., p. 391.
11 Op. cit., p. 99.