SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS’ THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, as Gift

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Whether “Gift” is a personal name?

A Divine Person can be given as a gift to a human person; as the Word of the Living God boldly proclaims to the entire world! The word “gift” is also a personal name proper to the Holy Spirit, so therefore it is a personal name. Now, a gift can be rejected, misused, or ignored according to the freewill of the receiver. Today, we see those who reject The Gift, which is the Holy Spirit, instead they exchange it for the ungift, which is the unholy spirit. So there is a Spirit of Love and Truth in the world; so there is a spirit of hate and untruth also in the world, and the man gets to choose which one he shall receive by his words and his conduct.  

Whether “Gift” is the proper name of the Holy Spirit?

Gift is the proper name to the Holy Spirit because it is truly given to humans freely because of God’s love for them. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit is known as the First Gift through which all free gifts are given because of Love. When we love somebody and give them something freely we do it out of love for them in that we wish it may go well with them. From this Gift of Love (Holy Spirit), it also follows that many other spiritual gifts are portioned out to the Body of Christ.  

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I am blessed to be a Third Order Lay Dominican. However, the ideas expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the endorsement of or position of the Order of Preachers as a whole.
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Commentary regarding Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae derived from: ST part (I), Q. 27-49 from newadvent.org with permission.
 
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