{"id":71315,"date":"2018-05-20T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71315"},"modified":"2018-05-20T05:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T09:34:01","slug":"john-calvin-on-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71315","title":{"rendered":"John Calvin on Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[At Pentecost Peter] intendeth to prove&#8230;that the Church can be repaired by no other means, saving only by the giving of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, forasmuch as they did all hope that the restoring drew near, he accuseth them of sluggishness, because they do not once think upon the way and means thereof. And when the prophet saith, \u201cI will pour out,\u201d it is, without all question, that he meant by this word to note the great abundance of the Spirit&#8230;.when God will briefly promise salvation to his people, he affirmeth that he will give them his Spirit. Hereupon it followeth that we can obtain no good things until we have the Spirit given us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and the other disciples gathered in prayer with the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Upper Room. Come, Holy Spirit! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PlLbRwT00X\">pic.twitter.com\/PlLbRwT00X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Man of Catholicism (@CatholicismGuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatholicismGuy\/status\/997975829887029249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[At Pentecost Peter] intendeth to prove&#8230;that the Church can be repaired by no other means, saving only by the giving of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, forasmuch as they did all hope that the restoring drew near, he accuseth them of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71315\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,166,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pentecost","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71317,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71315\/revisions\/71317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}