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The Spiritual Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2024

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The Spirit breatheth where He will, and thou hearest His voice; but thou knowest not whence He cometh or whither He goeth. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit.

(Jn. iii, 8.)

Cajetan rightly observes that in these words our Lord, describing the way and state of the Spirit, described also the way and state of the spiritual man. Now, since Christ our Lord, the very truth, declares most plainly that this is the case of everyone who is born of the Spirit, we should conclude that the state of the spiritual man, as formed by the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, cannot be explained in any better way than by the similitude here employed by our Lord.

Note, therefore, that this text lays down three conditions for the state of the spiritual man.

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Blackfriars , Volume 22 , Issue 256 , July 1941 , pp. 362 - 365
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Copyright © 1941 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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Footnotes

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From John of St. Thomas: Cursus Theologicus in Iam II ae, D. Thomae, D. XVIII, De donis Spiritus Sancti. Art. I.