[2] The most obvious reason for concluding that the Holy Spirit is a person is that he performs actions and stands in relations which belong only to a person, e. g.: _He speaks_ (Acts 1: 16); _he works miracles_ (Acts 2: 4; 8: 39); _he sets ministers over churches_ (Acts 20: 28); _he commands and forbids_ (Acts 8: 29; 11: 12; 13: 2; 16: 6, 7); _he prays for us_ (Rom. 8: 26); _he witnesses_ (Rom. 8: 16); _he can be grieved_ (Eph. 4: 30); _he can be blasphemed_ (Mark 3: 29); _he can be resisted_ (Acts 7: 51, etc). [3] If the Holy Spirit may not speak of himself as preacher, how canst thou draw thy preaching out of thyself--out of thine head or even out of thine heart.--_Pastor Gossner_. [4] Let it be observed that in this communication of the risen Christ it is not said, "Receive ye _the_ Holy Ghost"--the article being significantly omitted--_Labete Pneuma agion_ (John 20: 22). [5] How righteous must he be, who will go to the Father from the cross and the grave! Thus will the Holy Spirit convince the world that he is a righteous man, and truly righteous for man.--_Roos_. [6] "Neither the Son": "It is more than _neither_; it is _not yet the Son_," says Morrison the commentator. {51} IV THE EMBODYING OF THE SPIRIT {52} "But now the Holy Ghost is given more perfectly, for he is no longer present by his operation as of old, but is present with us so to speak, and converses with us in a substantial manner. For it was fitting that, as the Son had conversed with us in the body, the spirit should also come among us in a bodily manner."--_Gregory Nazianzen_. {53} IV THE EMBODYING OF THE SPIRIT