* filled.
35:31 1Ki 3:9 7:14 Isa 28:6,26 1Co 12:4-11
* the spirit of God.
{Ruach Elohim,} rather, "a spirit of God;" which is a usual
Hebraism, signifying "an excellent spirit;" or, as we should
now say, "a distinguished genius for the work he had to
perform." No man, by course of reading or study, ever
acquired a genius of any kind: we call it natural, and say
it was born with the man: Moses teaches us to consider it
divine. The prophet Isaiah, (ch. 28:24-29,) pointedly refers
to this sort of teaching as coming from God, even in the most
common and less difficult arts of life. Dark as the heathens
were, yet they acknowledged that all talents and the seeds of
all arts came from God.
|