"Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our
ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of
sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of
the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in
eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all
"fulness of blessing" [Romans 15:29], both in this world and in the world to
come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise
hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as
though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment" (Saint Basil the Great, De Spirtu Sancto, XV. 36.)
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