God’s Empowering Presence

The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul

Gordon D. Fee

Baker Academic

Grand Rapids, Michigan

© 1994 by Gordon D. Fee

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Baker Academic edition published 2011

ISBN 978-0-8010-4621-6

Previously published in 1994 by Hendrickson Publishers

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the original edition as follows:

Fee, Gordon D.

God’s empowering presence: the Holy Spirit in the letters of Paul / Gordon D. Fee

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-943575-94-X

1. Holy Spirit—Biblical teaching. 2. Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title

BS2655.H67F44 1994

231ʹ.3ʹ09015—dc20

93-41933

Material from “Pauline Literature,” in the Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Stanley M. Burgess and Gary B. McGee, eds., Patrick H. Alexander, assoc. ed., © 1988 Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee, and Patrick H. Alexander, was used with the permission of Zondervan Publishing House.

Portions of chapter 4, “1 Corinthians,” were adapted from Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, in the New International Commentary series, © 1987 by Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, and is used with the gracious permission of the publisher.

for

Carl and Betsy

Michael and Rosemary

Peter and Donna

Paul and Gail

and

Maudine

with gratitude for providing a context

for the birthing of this book;

may God’s Empowering Presence

be your portion

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Author’s Preface

1 Introduction

A “Theology” of the Spirit?

God’s Empowering Presence

About the Book Itself

Finding the Elusive “Center”

2 Preliminary Observations on Usage

The Use of πνεῦμα in Paul

The Holy Spirit or a holy spirit

Holy Spirit or human spirit

“The Spirit of” or “a spirit of”

The Meaning of the Adjective πνευματικὀς

The Term χάριαμα in Paul

The Spirit and the Language of Power

Part I—Analysis

3 The Thessalonian Correspondence

1 Thessalonians

1 Thes 1:4–6

1 Thes 2:15

1 Thes 4:8

1 Thes 5:16–18

1 Thes 5:19–22

1 Thes 5:23–24

2 Thessalonians

2 Thes 1:11

2 Thes 2:1–2

2 Thes 2:8

2 Thes 2:9

2 Thes 2:13

Conclusion

4 1 Corinthians

1 Cor 1:4–7

1 Cor 2:4–5

1 Cor 2:6–3:2

1 Cor 3:16–17

1 Cor 4:18–21

1 Cor 5:3–5

1 Cor 6:11

1 Cor 6:14

1 Cor 6:17

1 Cor 6:19–20

1 Cor 7:7

1 Cor 7:34

1 Cor 7:40

1 Cor 9:11

1 Cor 10:3–4

1 Cor 11:4–5

1 Corinthians 12:1–14:40

1 Cor 12:1–3

1 Cor 12:4–11

1 Cor 12:12–14

1 Cor 12:15–26

1 Cor 12:27–31

1 Cor 13:1–3

1 Cor 13:8–11

1 Corinthians 14:1–25

1 Cor 14:1–5

1 Cor 14:6–19

1 Cor 14:20–25

1 Cor 14:26–33

1 Cor 14:36–40

1 Cor 15:42–46

1 Cor 16:18

Conclusions

Excursus: On the Text of 1 ...