It was a great turning point in my ministry, when, after much thought and study and meditation, I became satisfied that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit was an experience for to-day and for me, and set myself about obtaining it. Such blessing came to me personally, that I began giving Bible readings on the subject, and with increasing frequency as the years have passed. God in His wondrous grace has so greatly blessed these readings, and so many have asked for them in printed form, convenient for circulation among their friends, that I have decided to write them out in full for publication. It is an occasion of great joy that so many and such excellent books on the person and work of the Holy Spirit have appeared of late. I wish to call especial attention to two of these: “Through the Eternal Spirit,” by James Elder Cumming and “The Spirit of Christ,” by Andrew Murray.
In the following pages I speak uniformly of the Holy Spirit, but in the quotations from the Bible retain the less desirable phraseology there used—“The Holy Ghost”—except in those instances where the translators themselves varied their usage. Probably most of the readers of this book already know that “the Holy Spirit” and “the Holy Ghost” are simply two different translations of precisely the same Greek words. It seems very unfortunate, and almost unaccountable, that the English revisers did not follow the suggestion of the American Committee, and, for “Holy Ghost”, adopt uniformly the rendering “Holy Spirit.”
Genre: RELIGION / Christian Theology / PneumatologyR. A. Torrey is a classic author and is still well known and widely read today. We are not the only ones to publish this book and with all of the editions combined I would say this book sells very well. To be honest our edition is a little bit buried on Amazon, but as far as I can see there is only one recently pubished translation into Spanish that I could find (may be others) that is priced way too high for an 80 page book, and one Portuguese translation from 1984 that seems to be out of print. So there is definitely room in the market for another fresh translation of the book into these and other languages.
CHAPTER I
THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES
While a great deal is said in these days concerning the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, it is to be feared that there are many who talk about it and pray for it, who have no clear and definite idea of what it is. But the Bible, if carefully studied, will give us a view of this wondrous blessing that is perfectly clear and remarkably definite.
1. We find first of all, that there are a number of designations in the Bible for this one experience. In Acts 1:5, Jesus said, “Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” In Acts 2:4, when this promise was fulfilled, we read, “they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” In Acts 1:4, the same experience is spoken of as “the promise of the Father” and in Luke 24:49 as “the promise of my Father,” and “endued power from on high.” By a comparison of Acts 10:44, 45, 47 with Acts 11:15, 16, we find that the expressions “the Holy Spirit fell on them” and “the gift of the Holy Ghost,” and “received the Holy Ghost” are all equivalent to “baptized with the Holy Ghost.”
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Author review: Great translation. Great to work with. I highly recommend this translator to anyone. |
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Author review: Great translation. Great to work with. I highly recommend this translator to anyone. |
