An unction] RV 'an anointing': cp. 2 Corinthians 1:21. Oil is the sacred symbol of the Spirit's operations. The anointing here represents the gift of the Spirit, whereby believers are endowed with spiritual discernment (John 14:26; John 16:13). The Holy one] probably Christ.

23. 'The denial of the Son involves the loss of the Father, not only because the ideas of sonship and fatherhood are correlative, but because the Son alone can reveal the Father.'

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