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Excerpt from Studia Sacra: Commentaries on the Introductory Verses of St. John's Gospel
Jan. 31, 1851. With regard to this particular point, first, are you not mistaken in treating it, as you seem to do, as a distinct Article of the Creed I always thought it was only a difference in the wording of the Eighth article; and that, as such, it might fairly admit of various interpretations within a certain latitude; just as He descended into Hell, ' being part of the Fifth ar ticle, or 'the Communion of Saints, ' being part of the Ninth, have been and are variously interpreted, without prejudice to the orthodoxy or honesty of the different parties. Then, as to the d104s by which the wording in our copies is defended, I own that Bishop Pearson's argument from the term, 'the Spirit of His Son, ' appears to me very conclusive. It is not simply saying that the One has a property in the Other, but that it is such a property as implies a relation more or less like that of a man to his own spirit or breath see St. John xx. 22. Then your objection to the passages cited from St. John xiv., &c., that they are 'in the future tense, ' will equally hold against the phraseology of the Greek Fathers, who, as I see in Pearson, argue from the phrase, c'lc 706 s'paz'i Xfiwema, as if it implied an eternal relation.
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