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  (THE HOLY SPIRIT) 1. LIKE A DOVE
  by A.B. Simpson
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The first emblem under which we see the Holy Spirit in the New Testament
is the dove descending upon the head of Jesus at His baptism on the
banks of the Jordan.

The first emblem under which the Holy Spirit is presented in the Old
Testament is also a dove. In the story of creation, in the first chapter
of Genesis, second verse, we read: "The earth was without form and void,
and darkness brooded over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God
brooded upon the face of the waters." This is the figure of the mother
dove brooding over her nest and cherishing her young. What a strange
background for such a picture: chaos, desolation, the seething waters,
the hissing flames, the wild abyss, the starless night, the reign of
ruin, death, and desolation! This was the scene where the mother dove of
eternal love and peace began to build her nest, and she rested not until
out of that scene of wreck she had evolved a bright and happy world, and
a smiling paradise, with its human family and its pure and heavenly
happiness and hope.

We pass over seven chapters, and we come to another scene of desolation
and wreck. The waters of the deluge are sweeping around the world. The
work of twenty centuries is submerged beneath that awful flood, and the
world\

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