Holy-spirit meaning

The definition of the Holy Spirit is God's continued presence on Earth and the Third Person of the Holy Trinity.

An example of the Holy Spirit is one of the beings with whom people cross themselves before praying.

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The third person of the Trinity.
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(proper) The spirit of God; specif. the third person of the Trinity.
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(Christianity) One of the three distinct Persons or Hypostases of the Holy Trinity, the others being God the Father and God the Son (Jesus). This expression has superseded the term Holy Ghost in many Christian denominations and Bible translations.
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Holy-spirit Sentence Examples

  • As no one could curse Jesus except under the influence of a devilish afflatus, so none could say "Jesus is Lord" except he was inspired by the Holy Spirit.

  • (6) But, since the divine injunction had been" Do this in remembrance of me,"the sacrifice was immediately followed by a commemoration of the passion of Christ, and that again by an invocation of the Holy Spirit (epiclesis) that He would make the bread and wine to become the body and blood of Christ.

  • With respect to other doctrines also, such as those of the Holy Spirit and the incarnation of Christ, &c., Origen prepared the way for the later dogmas.

  • Three of them express in the strongest language the orthodox faith of the church in opposition to the Arian heresy, and these three put in unmistakable language the procession of the Holy Spirit from both Father and Son.

  • In later Jewish literature we meet with further examples of similar hypostases in the form of Memra, Metatron, Shechinah, Holy Spirit and Bath kol.

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