[96] Ibid. i. 14.

[97] 1 Pet. ii. 22–24.

[98] Rom. viii. 26, 27.

[99] Exod. xxiii. 20–23.

[100] Isa. lxiii. 9, 10; Haggai ii. 5; cf. Neh. ix. 20. It was probably with reference to the storm as the most destructive phenomenon of nature that the name “breath of God” was given to the angel commissioned by him to destroy the enemies of his people.

[101] Milman, “History of Christianity,” i. 352.

[102] “Essence of Christianity,” chap. xv.

[103] See Eusebius, “Ecclesiastical History,” bk. vi. chap. 37.

[104] 1 Cor. xi. 29.

[105] The origin of this doctrine must not be confused with the scholastic defence of it.