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Putting on the Spirit (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Descent/fall of the divine spirit 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.02 Cult of Ištar 03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation 03.02.01.02 Descent/fall of the divine spirit Holy Spirit 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.04 Concept of god (1) 01.04.02 Trinity of god 01.04.02.05 Holy Spirit	Keywords Christianity descent soul
Period 4th century CE	Channel Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Aphrahat, Demonstrations 6.292.24-293.5:
From baptism we receive the Spirit of Christ, and in the same hour that the priests invoke the Spirit, she opens the heavens and descends, and hovers over the waters, and those who are baptized put her on. From all who are born of a body the Spirit is absent till they come to birth by water, and then receive the Holy Spirit.

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Aphrahat, Demonstrations 6.292.24-293.5

Bibliography

Murray 1975, 143

Murray, Robert. Symbols of Church and Kingdom. A Study in Early Syriac Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1975.

Amar Annus

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