Know thou that the Messianic Spirit and the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit is always manifest, but
capacity and ability (to receive it) is more in some
and less in others. After the crucifixion the apostles
had not in the beginning the capacity and ability of
witnessing the Messianic reality. For they were agitated.
But when they found firmness and steadfastness
their inner sight became opened, and they saw
the reality of the Messiah as manifest. For the body
of Christ was crucified and vanished, but the Spirit of
Christ is always pouring upon the contingent world,
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and is manifest before the insight of the people of
assurance.