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Chapter IX.—Why the Holy Spirit
Was Only “Borne Over” The Waters.
10. But was not either the Father or the Son
“borne over the waters?” If we understand this to mean in
space, as a body, then neither was the Holy Spirit; but if the
incommutable super-eminence of Divinity above everything mutable,
then both Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost were borne “over the waters.”
Why, then, is this said of Thy Spirit only? Why is it said of Him
alone? As if He had been in place who is not in place, of whom only
it is written, that He is Thy gift?1195
| 1195 See De Trin. xv. 17–19. | In Thy gift we rest; there we
enjoy Thee. Our rest is our place. Love lifts us up thither, and
Thy good Spirit lifteth our lowliness from the gates of death.1196
In Thy
good pleasure lies our peace.1197
The body by its own weight
gravitates towards its own place. Weight goes not downward only,
but to its own place. Fire tends upwards, a stone downwards. They
are propelled by their own weights, they seek their own places. Oil
poured under the water is raised above the water; water poured upon
oil sinks under the oil. They are propelled by their own weights,
they seek their own places. Out of order, they are restless;
restored to order, they are at rest. My weight is my love;1198
| 1198 Compare De Civ. Dei, xi. 28: “For the
specific gravity of bodies is, as it were, their love, whether they
are carried downwards by their weight, or upwards by their
levity.” | by it am I
borne whithersoever I am borne. By Thy Gift we are inflamed, and
are borne upwards; we wax hot inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend
Thy ways that be in our heart,1199
and sing a song of degrees; we
glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go, because
we go upwards to the peace of Jerusalem; for glad was I when they
said unto me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.”1200
There hath
Thy good pleasure placed us, that we may desire no other thing than
to dwell there for ever.
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