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On the Holy Spirit (Metropolitan of Gortyn and Megalopolis, Ieremias)

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Saint John the Damascan tells us that the Word of God must have a Spirit. In any case even our own word has. In us, however, the spirit is foreign to our nature. In us, the spirit is an attraction and movement of air which enters and leaves us for the sustainment of the body, as experts know very well. So this spirit, at the moment when we wish to utter something, becomes the voice of the word, a voice which, through its presence, reveals the force of the word. Just as there’s a spirit in people in this general sense, we have to admit in all piety, says Damaskinos, that there exists a Spirit in the divine nature, which ...

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