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Tag: Syriac spirituality

Posted on February 10, 2021October 18, 2022

Rose of Sharon, Day 4

“Rose of Sharon, Day 4”
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang

The Hebrew word for Spirit (ruach) in Genesis 1:2 is feminine. 

St. Ephrem the Syrian writes:

[The Holy Spirit] warmed the waters with a kind of vital warmth, even bringing them to a boil through intense heat in order to make them fertile.

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