Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
The “spirit of the world” is the one by which different people are possessed. It does not know the truth but can only guess at it, and therefore it both deceives others and is itself deceived by appearances. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
