4662. About the Holy Spirit

That not the Holy Spirit, but an angel spoke to the prophets, is evident from many passages. The prophets say, "an angel spoke in me," also David, I think. Also an angel spoke to Zachariah, to Mary, to the shepherds, Luke 1:2. Thus those who spoke the Word to the prophets were angels, these being called the Holy Spirit, because holiness came through them from the Lord.

[2] The Spirit of Jehovah here and there in the prophets is called the Divine, but the Jews, like their fathers, called whomsoever spoke with them, God, because he called himself God, for a reason spoken of elsewhere. Therefore also at the time of the coming of the Lord, they worshiped the holy spirit, which, because the concept could not be eradicated in a moment, is also called the holy spirit, but by it the holiness of the spirit is meant, or the Divine, as in the Old Testament.