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Definition of Holy spirit

1. Noun. The third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost.

Definition of Holy spirit

1. Proper noun. (''Christian'') One of the three distinct Persons or Hypostases of the Holy Trinity, the others being God the Father and God the Son (Jesus). This expression has superseded the term Holy Ghost in many Christian denominations and Bible translations. ¹

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Literary usage of Holy spirit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... ii, iii; HAUSRATH, Hist, of NT Times, Times of the Apostles (Eng. trans.), iii. 82 f. ; MOZLEY, The Word; BUCHANAN, Office and Work of the holy spirit; ..."

2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1849)
"&px'i) from whom all else was derived, from whom the Son was generated, and from whom the holy spirit proceeded, and who effects all through the Son and in ..."

3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"2 For, without doubt, every one who walks upon the earth (ie, earthly and corporeal beings) is a partaker also of the holy spirit, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The Work of the holy spirit, New York. 1900 (contains a bibliography of the older ... 1894; JP Coyle, The holy spirit in Literature and Life, Boston. ..."

5. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"The holy spirit is another person than Christ, in spite of Christ's saying of the coming of the holy spirit : "I come unto you. ..."

6. Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full by Edward Mark Deems (1906)
"Of a nobler tone, because, while not less devout, more truly intelligent, are the others: Simeon's OFFICES OF THE holy spirit, FOUR SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE ..."

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