own authority, the Spirit hears from the Son and, in turn, speaks what the Son has taught him to say. And the Holy Spirit directs this divine speech to the apostles, the final link in the trinitarian communicative chain (1 Cor 2:10–13): “We [apostles] also speak these things [divine revelation, freely given to us by God; vv. 10, 12], not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people” (v. 13). The Holy Spirit is the one by whom
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