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What the Fathers say

Micah 3:8

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Jerusalem

If, further, one works through the twelve minor prophets, many testimonies to the Holy Spirit are to be found. Thus Micah speaks as God's mouthpiece and says, "Truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord." Joel cries, " 'And it shall come to pass afterwards,' says God, 'that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh' " and what follows. …

Catechetical Lecture 15:29 ↗

Western Saints

Bonaventure

The third ground of the influx of fortitude is from God indwelling. Whence in Micah: "I am filled with the fortitude of the Lord, with judgment and power." The human body, when it does not have a spirit, does not have power, even if it were a gigantic body; so if God is not in the soul, then it does not have power.

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 5 ↗