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124 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IX HISTORY.unity, their joint existence and mission, withoutwhom they could do nothing. All this to themthat "other" Paraclete was to be, in order*thatthe departure of the Former Paraclete should beexpedient for them. For in this continuity ofHis presence was involved the further gift thatthe Paraclete was to come to them as a Body,and because of this manner of coming He replacedthe Former. Had He come to them onlyas individuals, they would have suffered a grievousloss, the loss of the Head who made them one.But He came to them as the Body of Christ, andcoming made them that Body, being the Spiritof the Head. That rushing mighty wind filled thewhole house in which they were sitting, and theyall were filled together with the presence ; and asa sign that the old confusion and separation ofmankind were in them to be done away, speakingin one tongue the one truth which was evermoreto dwell with them, they were heard in allthe various languages of the nations present atthe feast. " The society by which men are madethe one Bodv of the only Son of God belongs tothe Spirit,"7 and He came upon all together inone House to indicate, * as MPNJ He J--L vy made, 1^0*11 MMkAV 4 that oneBody. " The mode of giving," says S. Augustine,"was such as never before appeared. Nowheredo we read before that men congregatedtogether had by receiving the Holy Ghost spoken6 S. Aug. torn. v. 398 g.