Spirit Who Sanctifies

I must also speak to you about the temple. The wretched people were deceived; they pinned their hope on a building instead of on their God who made them, as if that structure were God's house. They dedicated it almost the way the nations dedicate their shrines.

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Of Grief, and Not Grieving the Spirit of God Which is in Us. Chapter 1 Remove from you, says he, grief; for she is the sister of doubt and anger. How, sir, say I, is she the sister of these?

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Of Sadness of Heart, and of Patience. Chapter 1 Be patient, said he, and of good understanding, and you will rule over every wicked work, and you will work all righteousness. For if you be patient, the Holy Spirit that dwells in you will be pure.

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1. A spiritual disciple of this sort truly receiving the Spirit of God, who was from the beginning, in all the dispensations of God, present with mankind, and announced things future, revealed things present, and narrated things past — such a man does indeed judge all men, but is himself judged by no man.

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1. Now God shall be glorified in His handiwork, fitting it so as to be conformable to, and modelled after, His own Son. For by the hands of the Father, that is, by the Son and the Holy Spirit, man, and not merely a part of man, was made in the likeness of God.

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1. But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God;

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