[Footnote E: St. John xvi:8.]
[Footnote F: Ibid, verses 13-15.]
The apostles also refer to the Holy Ghost in much the same manner: Peter represents the Holy Ghost as speaking by the mouth of David concerning the treachery of Judas;[A] he also represents Ananias as having lied to the Holy Ghost;[B] also he represents the Holy Ghost as bearing witness with himself and his fellow apostle, John, to the divinity of the Christ;[C] also the Holy Ghost is represented as sending forth men to the ministry: "The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them * * * so they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia."[D]
[Footnote A: II Acts i:16, 17; c. f. Psalms xli:9.]
[Footnote B: Acts v:3.]
[Footnote C: Acts v:29-32.]
[Footnote D: Acts xiii:2-4.]
The Holy Ghost is represented as forbidding Paul and Timothy preaching in Asia, and Bithynia.[A]
[Footnote A: Acts xvi:6-8: "After they were gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach in Asia, after they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit suffered them not.">[
The fruit of the Spirit (the Holy Ghost) is said to be "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance;" and as these things can only proceed from a being possessed of attributes that produce them, we must needs think of the Holy Ghost as loving, as merciful, as patient, as meek, as temperate, as gentle. All which with the other things preceding here said of him, clearly established personality for the third person of the Godhead.