robbers and whoremongers, are in Genesis called sons of God. 

(1:76) This reference of things wonderful to God was not
peculiar to the Jews.  (77) Pharaoh, on hearing the
interpretation of his dream, exclaimed that the mind
of the gods was in Joseph.  (78) Nebuchadnezzar told Daniel
that he possessed the mind of the holy gods; so also in
Latin anything well made is often said to be wrought with
Divine hands, which is equivalent to the Hebrew phrase,
wrought with the hand of God.

[1:6] (80) We can now very easily understand and explain those
passages of Scripture which speak of the Spirit of God.  (81) In
some places the expression merely means a very strong, dry, and
deadly wind, as in Isaiah xl:7, "The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it."
(82) Similarly in Gen. i:2: "The Spirit of the Lord moved
over the face of the waters."  (83) At other times it is used
as equivalent to a high courage, thus the spirit of Gideon and
of Samson is called the Spirit of the Lord, as being very bold,
and prepared for any emergency.  (84) Any unusual virtue or power
is called the Spirit or Virtue of the Lord, Ex. xxxi:3: "I will
fill him (Bezaleel) with the Spirit of the Lord," i.e., as the
Bible itself explains, with talent above man's usual endowment.
(85) So Isa. xi:2: "And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
him," is explained afterwards in the text to mean the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, of counsel and might.

(1:86) The melancholy of Saul is called the melancholy of the
Lord, or a very deep melancholy, the persons who applied the
term showing that they understood by it nothing supernatural,
in that they sent for a musician to assuage it by harp-playing.
(87) Again, the "Spirit of the Lord" is used as equivalent to
the mind of man, for instance, Job xxvii:3: "And the Spirit
of the Lord in my nostrils," the allusion being to Gen. ii:7:
"And God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life."
(1:88) Ezekiel also, prophesying to the dead, says (xxvii:14),
"And I will give to you My Spirit, and ye shall live;" i.e.
I will restore you to life.  (1:89) In Job xxxiv:14, we read:
"If He gather unto Himself His Spirit and breath;" in
Gen. vi:3: "My Spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh," i.e. since man acts on the
dictates of his body, and not the spirit which I gave
him to discern the good, I will let him alone.  (90) So,
too, Ps. li:12: "Create in me a clean heart, 0 God, and
renew a right spirit within me; cast me not away from
Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me."
(1:91) It was supposed that sin originated only from the
body, and that good impulses come from the mind;
therefore the Psalmist invokes the aid of God against
the bodily appetites, but prays that the spirit which
the Lord, the Holy One, had given him might be renewed.
(1:92) Again, inasmuch as the Bible, in concession to
popular ignorance, describes God as having a mind, a
heart, emotions - nay, even a body and breath - the
expression Spirit of the Lord is used for God's mind,
disposition, emotion, strength, or breath.  (93) Thus,
Isa. xl:13: "Who hath disposed the Spirit of the Lord?"
i.e. who, save Himself, hath caused the mind of the Lord
to will anything,? and Isa. lxiii:10: "But they rebelled,
and vexed the Holy Spirit."

(94) The phrase comes to be used of the law of Moses, which
in a sense expounds God's will, Is. lxiii. 11, "Where is He
that put His Holy Spirit within him?" meaning, as we clearly
gather from the context, the law of Moses.  (95) Nehemiah,
speaking of the giving of the law, says, i:20, "Thou gavest
also thy good Spirit to instruct them."  (96) This is referred
to in Deut. iv:6, "This is your wisdom and understanding,"
and in Ps. cxliii:10, "Thy good Spirit will lead me into the
land of uprightness."  (1:97) The Spirit of the Lord may mean
the breath of the Lord, for breath, no less than a mind, a
heart, and a body are attributed to God in Scripture, as in
Ps. xxxiii:6.  (98) Hence it gets to mean the power, strength,
or faculty of God, as in Job xxxiii:4, "The Spirit of the Lord
made me," i.e. the power, or, if you prefer, the decree of the
Lord.  (99) So the Psalmist in poetic language declares, xxxiii:6,
"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the
host of them by the breath of His mouth," i.e. by a mandate
issued, as it were, in one breath.  (100) Also Ps. cxxxix:7,
"Wither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee
from Thy presence?" i.e. whither shall I go so as to be beyond
Thy power and Thy presence?

(1:101) Lastly, the Spirit of the Lord is used in Scripture to
express the emotions of God, e.g. His kindness and mercy,
Micah ii:7, "Is the Spirit [i.e. the mercy] of the Lord
straitened?  (102) Are these cruelties His doings?"
(1:103) Zech. iv:6, "Not by might or by power, but My Spirit
[i.e. mercy], saith the Lord of hosts."  (104) The twelfth
verse of the seventh chapter of the same prophet must, I
think, be interpreted in like manner: "Yea, they made their
hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law,
and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in His Spirit
[i.e. in His mercy] by the former prophets."  (105) So also
Haggai ii:5: "So My Spirit remaineth among you: fear not."

(1:106) The passage in Isaiah xlviii:16, "And now the Lord
and His Spirit hath sent me," may be taken to refer to God's
mercy or His revealed law; for the prophet says, "From the