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In fifteen thorough chapters David Ewert surveys the whole range of New Testament authors to discover what they have to say on the Holy Spirit and what this means for the life of the believer and for the church. The book is organized in three parts: (1) The Promise of the Spirit, considering all the passages of the Gospels that speak of the Holy Spirit; (2) The Coming of the Spirit, dealing with...

day in the future. This new age was to be attended by an unusual activity of the Spirit of God. Since the days of the monarchy, when God entered into a covenant with David (2 Sam. 7:12–17), this hope for a new age expressed itself in terms of an ideal king, a messianic prince from the house of David. The fallen booth of David (Amos 9:11) was to be rebuilt by a ruler who would be endowed in a special way with the Spirit of God. “There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch
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