And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
But that the Spirit is the arbiter of the divine counsel, you may know even from this. For when we showed that the Holy Spirit was the Lord of baptism and read that baptism is the counsel of God, as you read, “But the Pharisees despised the counsel of God, not being baptized of him,” it is quite clear that as there can be no baptism without the Spirit, so too the counsel of God is not without the Spirit. And that we may know more completely that the Spirit is power, we ought to know that he was promised when the Lord said, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.” He, then, who was promised to us is himself power, as in the Gospel the same Father of God declared when he said, “And I will send the promise of the Father upon you, but do you remain in the city until you are endued with power from on high.” .
