Pneumatologia, or A Discourse concerning the Holy Spirit

Sect. 3 This is one signification of the word [Greek or Hebrew], or, this is one thing denoted by it in the Scripture. So among many other places expressly; Amos 4. 13. for lo, [Greek or Hebrew], He that formeth the Mountains, and createth the Spirit, that is, the Wind. The LXX render this place, [Greek or Hebrew], who establisheth the Thunder, and createth the Spirit; though some Copies read [Greek or Hebrew], the Mountains. And the next words in the Text, [Greek or Hebrew], and declareth unto Man what is his Thought; they render [Greek or Hebrew], and declareth unto men his Christ, or his Anointed, or his Messiah. For they took [Greek or Hebrew] for [Greek or Hebrew], by inadvertency, and not for want of Points or Vowels as some imagine, seeing the Mistake consists in the casting out of a Letter it self. And thence the old Latin Translation renders the words, Firmans Tonitruum, & creans Spiritum, & annuncians in homines Christum suum. Which Hierom rectified into, formans Montes, & creans Ventum, & annuntians Homini eloquium suum; discovering in his Comment the Mistake of the LXX. But it is certain that from the Ambiguity of the word [Greek or Hebrew] in this place, with the corrupt Translations making mention of Christ in the next words, some who of old denied the Deity of the Holy Spirit, mightily insisted on it to prove him a Creature, as may be seen in Didymus, Ambrose, Hierom, Hilarius, and the Ancients generally. But the Context determines the signification of the Word beyond all just Exceptions. It is the Power of God in making and disposing of things here below, whether dreadful for their Greatness and Height, as the Mountains; or Mighty and Effectual in their operations, as the Wind; or Secret in their Conceptions, as the Thoughts of men; or stable in their Continuance, as the Night and Day, the Evening and Morning, without the least respect to Christ or the Spirit, that it treateth of.

Sect. 3 This is one signification of the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or, this is one thing denoted by it in the Scripture. So among many other places expresly; Amos 4. 13. for lo, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, He that formeth the Mountains, and createth the Spirit, that is, the Wind. The LXX render this place, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, who establisheth the Thunder, and createth the Spirit; though some Copies read , the Mountains. And the next words in the Text, , and declareth unto Man what is his Thought; they render , and declareth unto men his Christ, or his Anointed, or his Messiah. For they took for , by inadvertency, and not for want of Points or Vowels as some imagine, seeing the Mistake consists in the casting out of a Letter it self. And thence the old Latin Translation renders the words, Firmans Tonitruum, & creans Spiritum, & annuncians in homines Christum suum. Which Hierom rectified into, formans Montes, & creans Ventum, & annuntians Homini eloquium suum; discovering in his Comment the Mistake of the LXX. But it is certain that from the Ambiguity of the word in this place, with the corrupt Translations making mention of Christ in the next words, some who of old denied the Deity of the Holy Spirit, mightily insisted on it to prove him a Creature, as may be seen in Didymus, Ambrose, Hierom, Hilarius, and the Ancients generally. But the Context determines the signification of the Word beyond all just Exceptions. It is the Power of God in making and disposing of things here below, whether dreadful for their Greatness and Height, as the Mountains; or Mighty and Effectual in their operations, as the Wind; or Secret in their Conceptions, as the Thoughts of men; or stable in their Continuance, as the Night and Day, the Evening and Morning, without the least respect to Christ or the Spirit, that it treateth of.