Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this, which you now see and hear.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
and having received from the Father the Promise of the Holy Spirit:
Therefore also the Lord Jesus Christ Himself not only gave the Holy Spirit as God, but also received it as man, and therefore He is said to be full of grace, of the Holy Spirit (Lk 2:52). He is to be understood to have been then anointed with that mystical and invisible unction, when the Word of God was made flesh when human nature, without any precedent merits of good works, was joined to God the Word in the womb of the Virgin, so that with it it became one person. Therefore it is that we confess Him to have been born of the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary.
