Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

116 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORYwhole region of grace, and is coextensive witthe whole action of the Incarnate God upon menwhom He has taken to be His brethren. TheHoly Spirit in this Giving is He who representsthe Redeemer, and executes His will, not as aninstrument, not as one subordinate, but as thevery mind of Christ between whom and Christthere can far less enter any notion of division orseparation than between a man and his own spirit.He is that other Paraclete, abiding for ever, whoreplaces to the disciples the visible absence of thefirst Paraclete, the Redeemer Himself: He is thePower constituting the Kingdom of Christ ; theGodhead inhabiting His Temple ; the Soul animatingHis mystical Body ; the Charity, kindlinginto a living flame the heart of His Bride ; theCreator and Father of His Race.This connection between the Dispensation ofthe Son and the Giving of the Spirit was delineatedby our Lord himself when He first appearedto His assembled disciples after His resurrection.As they were gazing in wonder and trembling joyon that Body which had undergone His awful passion,as He showed them the wounds in His handsHis feet, He told them how His sufferingswere the fulfilment of all that in the Law, theProphets, and the Psalms had been written concerningHim. And thereupon it is said, He openedtheir mind to the understanding of these Scrip-tures. It was thus that the Christ was to suffer,