III
THE TALENTS OF THE SPIRIT
That the Six Gifts which we last considered were regarded as the normal dower of the ordinary Christian, is made certain by the remarkable fact that S. Paul describes nine other gifts as the special and extraordinary energizing of God's Spirit among certain exceptional individuals. The Nature of the Spirit in ordinary life may be summed up in the five names given him in different parts of the New Testament—The Spirit of Truth, of Wisdom, of Grace, the Spirit of Life, and Sonship, the last two being emphasized in the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans to show that he is the Spirit of Liberty.[1] Indeed, in another epistle S. Paul says that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.[2] We may summarize them in a little table:
The Spirit of God is the Spirit of | ||
| Truth | Life | |
| Wisdom | Sonship | |
| Grace | Liberty | |
Love | ||
S. Paul certainly thought that the ordinary Christian is inspired, and that his whole life is the expression of the Spirit's activities because
