Baptism And The Spirit

Et descendit Spiritus sanctus corporali specie sicut columba in ipsum. Bene corporali specie, quia in natura dvinitatis a mortablibus videri non potuit. Bene sicut columba, quia spiritus disciplinae effugiet fictum, nec habitabit in corpore subdito peccatis. Et quia ad exemplum Simonis in felle amaritudinis, et iniquitatis obligatione perdurant, sortem in eo partemque habere nullatenus possunt. Unde cum mundi crimina quondam in figuram baptismi diluvio purgerentur, non corvi, sed columbae ore delatus olivae ramus pacem saeculo redditam nuntiavit. Mystice docens solis eis qui in cordis simplicitate baptizati sunt, unctionem sancti Spiritus adfuturam. Nemo enim putet Dominum post baptisma primum Spiritus sancti gratia perunctum, aut aliquem divinae naturae per tempora gessisse perfectum, sed noverit potius a primo conceptus humani tempore quem verum hominem, eumdem et Deum existere verum. Adventu autem columbae demonstratum, quod in corpore eius, id est Ecclesia, praecipue baptizati accipiunt Spiritum sanctum. Sanctus Beda, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio, Liber I, Caput III Source: Migne PL 92.358d-359a

And the Holy Spirit in the corporeal form of a dove came down upon Him. 1 And rightly in corporeal form, because He could not be seen in His Divine nature by mortals. And rightly as a dove because the spirit shall flee the lie of discipline and shall not dwell in a body conquered by sin. 2 And because, according to the example of Simon, 3 they who are fixed in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of wickedness, are not able to have a share or part in Him. Whence when once the crimes of the world were cleansed by the flood as a figure of baptism, it was not the crow but the dove that returned with the branch of olive in its beak to announce that peace had returned to the world, 4 which spiritually teaches that only those who have been baptized in simplicity of heart receive the unction of the Holy Spirit. Let no one think that it was after baptism that the Lord was first anointed by the grace of the Holy Spirit, or that a certain perfection of the Divine nature had happened through time, but let it be understood that from the first time of His human conception that He exists as true man and true God. Thus the coming of the dove demonstrated that in His body, that is, the Church, it is especially those who have been baptised who receive the Holy Spirit. Saint Bede, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Luke, Book 1, Chapter 3 1 Lk 3.22 2 Wisd 1.5 3 Acts 8.16-24 4 Gen 8.6-11