Matthew Poole and continuators on John 3:34
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John3:34
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him .
He whom God hath sent out of Heaven, out of his bosom, not meerly authorising him as a Minister, as the Prophets, and as Iohn was sent
speaking nothing but the words of God. The Prophets, and the Apostles were sent of God, in a sense, but not as Christ was sent; they sometimes spake the words of God, when the Spirit of God came upon them; but they sometimes spake their own words, as Nathan did to David, when he encouraged his thoughts to build an house to the Lord. And Paul, when he said, To the rest speak I, not the Lord; but whatsoever Christ spake, was the words of God
For God did not give out the Spirit to him sparingly (as out of a measure) as he doth to his Ministers or Saints, who have but their proportion of Revelations and Graces, as was requisite for their Offices to which they were called; and the several periods of time that were gradually illuminated. But in him the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily, he was anointed with the oyl of gladness above his fellows: He had the Spring of all in him[illegible: 1 letter]e[illegible: 1 letter]f, not the Streams only.
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