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In the Gospel of the Hebrews that the Nazarenes read it says, "Just now my mother, the Holy Spirit, took me." Now no one should be offended by this, because "spirit" in Hebrew is feminine, while in our language [Latin] it is masculine and in Greek it is neuter. In divinity, however, there is no gender.
  • Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah 11
 
If any of you lack wisdom [Sophia], let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  • James 1:5If you know anything about the Wisdom Books then you know that wisdom=HS. Wisdom in Greek is ‘Sophia’ -feminine.
 
aps the first argument which can be offered in support of the feminine gender of the Holy Spirit is Her association with “the spirit of wisdom”(Exodus 28:3; Ephesians 1:17). In both the Old and New Testaments, Wisdom is often personified in the feminine gender:
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  "Say that Wisdom is thy sister" (Proverbs 7:4)
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  "Wisdom has built a house for herself, and set up seven pillars" (Proverbs 9:1)
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  Proverbs chapters 8 and 9 are in fact an extended allegory of Wisdom depicted as a woman.
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  "Wisdom is known by her children" (Matthew 11:19; Luke 7:35)
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  "Therefore also said the Wisdom of God, I will also send them prophets and apostles . . ." (Luke 11:49). In this text our Lord is equating the "Wisdom of God" with the Holy Spirit who provided Divine inspiration to those who wrote the Scriptures (2 Peter 1:21). He refers to Wisdom in the feminine gender.
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  The Old Testament word for "wisdom" is chokmah which has the feminine ending.
 
Even the famous Church Father Origen speaks of the Holy Spirit as being feminine, when saying:

Paidiske de kypias tou hagiou Pneumatos he psyche.

The soul is handmaiden to her mistress, the Holy Spirit.

Another illustration is found in the now lost Gospel of the Hebrews (cf. The Lost and Hostile Gospels by Rev. S. Baring-Gould, London, 1874, pp. 130-1), probably one of the first ever written by Christian hands, extracts from which have survived in the writings of Origen and Jerome. This particular passage is quoted by Origen and runs as follows:

Arti elabe me he meter mou to hagion pneuma, hen mia ton trichon mou, kai anenenke me eis to horos to mega thabor.

Straightway my mother the Holy Spirit took me in one of my hairs and bore me to the great mountain Thabor. – Homily xv, on Jeremiah and on John.

Similarly Jerome, another Church Father, wrote (Micheas, vii, 6):

Modo tulit me mater mea Spiritus Sanctus in uno capillorum meorum.

Then my mother the Holy Spirit took me in one of my hairs.
 
Let’s get back to the subject-footnotes. I like my footnotes but use a bible dictionary and commentary more often.I like footnotes as a starting point to discover what the text is pointing us to.Like anything take an intelligent look and don’t take anything a face value. Check out different resources, and try to find info that will back up the footnotes. Good hunting:thumbsup:
 
well, it will be interesting to see what people have to say in the morning. they will have a lot of reading from julia major to catch up on! LOL

i don’t know, i still think of Father, Son and Holy Spirit as paternal and masculine.

again, i can see the holy catholic church as maternal and nurturing.

i haven’t read any footnotes on this so i can’t comment on what any erudite authors say about the subject.
 
deborahaz said:
well, it will be interesting to see what people have to say in the morning. they will have a lot of reading from julia major to catch up on! LOL

i don’t know, i still think of Father, Son and Holy Spirit as paternal and masculine.

again, i can see the holy catholic church as maternal and nurturing.

i haven’t read any footnotes on this so i can’t comment on what any erudite authors say about the subject.
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These statements are correct. This is indeed what the Church teaches.

God is spirit and thus posses no male or female attributes. However, He is always referred to as God the Father because that is how Christ referred to Him.

Likewise the Holy Spirit does not posses male or female parts. The Blessed Virgin Mary is often referred to as the “spouse of the Holy Spirit” because it was the Holy Spirit who overshadowed her when Jesus was conceived.

Jesus Himself posses a male body.

The Church is repeatedly referred to as the “Bride of Christ” and Christ as the “Bridegroom of the Church”.
 
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