That is to say, this 'sevenfold' Holy Spirit is: His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh.

The spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh. The New Living Translation renders the text this way.Īs for the reason John identifies the person of the Holy Spirit as 'seven spirits', interpreters bring up Isaiah 11.1-3: A shoot shall come out from the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The very early explanation for this is to interpret 'seven spirits' as a singular 'sevenfold Spirit'. What little objection there is to this view comes in identifying 'the seven spirits' as the individual 'Holy Spirit'. Most Christian commentaries interpret these three as referring to the three persons of the trinity: Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and from God the Holy Spirit, and from God the Son The Three Entities Grace to you and peace from the one who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ The following is the answer I wrote to a similar question on Hermeneutics.SE.

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