And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
The Holy Spirit rejoices in our salvation not for himself, since he has no lack of blessedness. But if we have disobeyed the Spirit, we have grieved the Spirit. His work in us is cut short, just when he wishes us to belong to life. Yet he is not grieved in such a way as to suffer in a literal sense. For God the Spirit is invisible and not subject to physical suffering. When Paul says the Spirit is “grieved,” he speaks metaphorically on our account to show that the Spirit leaves us to our own selfwill when we have, so to speak, wounded him by despising his admonitions.
