| Numquid poteris conjungere septem micantes Pleiades? Verba sunt Domini loquentis ad beatum Job, et quaerentis utrum possit sibi jungere et counire dona Spiritus septiformis, quae et septem pleiades designantur. Hunc spiritu Christus ab aeterno habuit, et homo factus eumdem sine mensura recepit, ipsumque aliis secundum mensuram donationis suae distribuit. Quod spiritum septiformem acceperit, ostenditur verbo Isaiae qui dicit: Apprehendent septem mulieres virum unum in die illa, etc. et ut nos declaratio sermonum ejus illuminet plenius et instruat apertius, de Christo loquens: Requiescet, inquit, super eum spiritus sapientiae et intellectus, spiritus consilii et fortitudinis, spiritus scientiae et pietatis; et replebit eum spiritus timoris Domini. Isti sunt septem oculi super lapidem unum; septemque lucernae in candelabro aureo, sicut Zacharias commemorat. Cum Filius sit a Patre, et Spiritus sanctus ab utroque procedat, postquam Filius officium suae legationis impleverat, decebat ut et Spiritus sanctus mitteretur. Prius siquidem dederat Christus apostolis Spiritum sanctum: quod patenter indicabat perfectio sanitatum. Sed hodie datus est ei Spiritus sanctus ad usum, ad auxilium, ad solatium, ad miraculum, ad acquisitionem gentium, ad salutem omnium populorum. Datur Spiritus sanctus, ad emundationem, ad innovationem, ad justiitiam, ad exsultationem. Cor mundum crea in me, Deus: ecce cordis mundatio. Spiritus rectum innova in visceribus meis: ecce animae sanctificatio. Redde mihi laetitiam salutaris tui: et spiritu principali confirma me: ecce cordis mundatio. Spiritus rectum innova in visceribus meis: ecce innovans rectitudo. Spiritum sanctum tuum ne aufera a me: ecce animae sanctificatio, quia templum Dei et templum daemoniorum simul esse non possumus. Mundatus et lotus postulat ut ambulet vias rectas, ne ad actus extraordinarios iterum revertatur. Innovatur corde per rectitudinem, operatur laetitia salutaris, confirmanda spiritu principali. Petrus Blenensis, Sermo XXV, In Die Pentecostes Source: Migne PL 207.634c-635b |
Are you able to join together the seven shining Pleiades? 1 The words of the Lord spoken to Job ask him whether he is able to join and unite the gifts of the sevenfold spirit, which are designated by the seven Pleiades. Christ had this spirit from eternity and being made man received the same without measure, and gave it to others according to the measure of His own gift. That He shall receive the sevenfold spirit is shown in the speech of Isaiah which says 'Seven women will seize one man on that day,' and so that the declaration of his speech might enlighten us more fully and instruct us more openly, speaking of Christ he says, 'There shall rest on him the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and piety, and the spirit of the awe of the Lord shall fill him.' 2 These are the seven eyes on the one stone, and the seven lamps on the golden candlestick, as Zachariah recalls. 3 When the Son is from the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from both, after the Son fulfilled his office of herald, it was befitting that the Holy Spirit should be sent. First Christ gave the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, which perfection evidently indicates soundness. But today the Holy Spirit is given for use, for aid and comfort and miracles and the conversion of nations and the salvation of all peoples. The Holy Spirit is given for cleansing and renewal and righteousness and exaltation. 'Fashion a clean heart in me, O God.' Behold the cleansing of the heart. 'Renew a right spirit within me.' Behold the sanctification of the soul. 'Return to me the joy of your salvation and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.' Behold the cleansing of the heart. 'Renew a right spirit within me.' Behold the renewal of rectitude. 'Do not take your Holy Spirit from me.' 4 Behold the sanctification of the soul, because we cannot be the temple of God and the temple of demons at the same time. Washed and cleansed he asks that he might walk on the ways that are right, lest he fall back again into erroneous deeds. With the heart renewed through rectitude, the joy of salvation is effective, strengthened by the perfect spirit. Peter of Blois, from Sermon 25, On The Day Of Pentecost 1 Job 38.31 2 Isaiah 4.1, 11.2 3 Zach 3.9 4 Ps 50.12,14 |
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