The Book of Wisdom or The Wisdom of Solomon 1:7 Yorum

As the Lord fills all things, so too we read of the Spirit, “For the Spirit of the Lord fills the whole world.” You see also that it was said of all those who were gathered with the apostles, “They were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.” You see that the Holy Spirit gives both fullness and boldness. It is his work that the archangel announces, saying to Mary, “The Holy Spirit shall come on you.”

The words “the Spirit hovered over the waters” do not require us, as some claim, to understand that spirit by which this corporal mass of the universe is animated, allowing bodily creatures to generate and preserve themselves, each according to their species. In fact, such a being would also be a creature. Also, regarding the text, “The Spirit of the Lord fills the universe,” there are those who understand by this that spirit which, as an invisible creature, encompasses and vivifies the entire visible creation with a universal breath. But even here I do not see what would prevent one from understanding the Holy Spirit, when God says in a prophet, “I fill the heavens and the earth.” God in fact does not fill heaven and earth without his Holy Spirit. What is strange, then, if it was said of his Holy Spirit, “he filled the universe”? Indeed, he fills in one way when he sanctifies, as was said of Stephen, “He was filled with the Holy Spirit,” and of many others. In another way he fills with sanctifying grace, as happens with some saints, and in yet another way he fills everything with his manifest and ordering presence. In conclusion, I do not know whether it can be proven with certainty from Scripture that, when speaking of the Spirit of God or of the Spirit of the Lord without any further qualification, it refers to something other than the Holy Spirit.

The true faith asserts that the Holy Spirit also is creator, not created. Indeed, how can one deny that he is creator, about whom it has been proven that he established the array of the heavens? David says, “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the Spirit of his mouth their entire array.” And elsewhere, “Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created.” The one who made humanity is in fact the creator of all. Blessed Job calls him “the divine Spirit who made me.” Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit created all things, in the same way he pervades all things, without limit. And one who pervades all things is true God by nature. It is written, “The Spirit of the Lord fills the world.” And even blessed David attests that the Spirit is everywhere, saying precisely of God, “Where will I go, far from your Spirit, and where will I flee from your face?” Then how can the Arians deny that the Holy Spirit is God, given that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, just as we are the temple of the Father and the Son? Indeed, the apostle says, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. In fact, the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.” In the same letter, the apostle asserts that we are the temple of God in such a way as to say that we are also the temple of the Holy Spirit. He says, “Do you not know that your members are the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God?” And precisely to show that the Holy Spirit is God, he adds, “Glorify and keep God in your hearts.”