The Holy Spirit

Spirit Who Sanctifies

50 passages, 5 quoted here

The Holy Spirit makes believers holy and changes the way they live.

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3 of the 3 writers here teach: “The Holy Spirit dwells in the faithful and makes holy.”

teaches it partly rejects it later writer, summary only

The Holy Spirit dwells in the faithful and makes holy3 teach

Barnabas Hermas Irenaeus ×3

Vice darkens or drives out the Spirit1 teach

Hermas ×2

What each writer said, earliest first

Barnabas Teaches: The Holy Spirit dwells in the faithful and makes holy

fl. c. 100 AD · Epistle of Barnabas 16

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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Greek

Ἔτι δὲ καὶ περὶ τοῦ ναοῦ ἐρῶ ὑμῖν, ὡς πλανώμενοι οἱ ταλαίπωροι εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ἤλπισαν, καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸν θεὸν αὐτῶν τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτούς, ὡς ὄντα οἶκον θεοῦ. σχεδὸν γὰρ ὡς τὰ ἔθνη ἀφιέρωσαν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ναῷ.

Hermas Teaches: Vice darkens or drives out the Spirit

fl. c. 140 AD · Shepherd, Mandate 10

He says, "Take sorrow away from yourself, for it is also a sister of double-mindedness and bitterness." I ask, "Lord, how can it be a sister of these? It seems to me that bitterness, double-mindedness, and sorrow are each completely different things." He answers, "You are a foolish person who fails to understand.

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Greek

Ἆρον ἀπὸ σεαυτοῦ, φησί, τὴν λύπην: καὶ γὰρ αὕτη ἀδελφή ἐστι τῆς διψυχίας καὶ τῆς ὀξυχολίας. Πῶς, φημί, κύριε, ἀδελφή ἐστι τούτων; ἄλλο γάρ μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι ὀξυχολία καὶ ἄλλο διψυχία καὶ ἄλλο λύπη.

Hermas Teaches: The Holy Spirit dwells in the faithful and makes holy

fl. c. 140 AD · Shepherd, Mandate 5

Be patient and wise, and you will master every evil deed and carry out all righteousness. If you are patient, the Holy Spirit who lives in you will remain pure, not crowded out by any evil spirit.

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Μακρόθυμος, φησί, γίνου καὶ συνετός, καὶ πάντων τῶν πονηρῶν ἔργων κατακυριεύσεις καὶ ἐργάσῃ πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην. ἐὰν γὰρ μακρόθυμος ἔσῃ, τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον τὸ κατοικοῦν ἐν σοὶ καθαρὸν ἔσται, μὴ ἐπισκοτούμενον ὑπὸ ἑτέρου πονηροῦ πνεύματος, ἀλλ’ ἐν εὐρυχώρῳ κατοικοῦν ἀγαλλιάσεται καὶ…

Irenaeus of Lyons Teaches: The Holy Spirit dwells in the faithful and makes holy

c. 130–c. 202 AD · Against Heresies 4.33

The true spiritual disciple receives the Spirit of God. From the beginning the Spirit was present to humanity in every disposition of God; he announced future things, showed present things, and narrated past things. He judges all people, yet no one judges him.

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Irenaeus of Lyons Teaches: The Holy Spirit dwells in the faithful and makes holy

c. 130–c. 202 AD · Against Heresies 5.6

God indeed forms the human person within his own creation, and what follows is an adaptation to his child. For it is through the Father's hands — that is, through the Son and the Spirit — that a human being is made in the likeness of God, yet no single part constitutes the whole.

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