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The earliest Christians—all of whom were Jews—spoke of the Holy Spirit as a feminine figure. The present article discusses the main proof texts, spanning the ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’ to a number of testimonies from the second century. The ancient tradition was, in particular, kept alive in East and West Syria, up to and including the fourth century Makarios/Symeon, who even influenced ‘modern’ Protestants such as John Wesley and the Moravian leader Count von Zinzendorf.
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Introduction
The Holy Spirit in the Early Church.
The fact that many early Christian authors—in particular those belonging to so-called ‘Jewish Christianity’—spoke of the Holy Spirit as Mother.
How did this come to pass? And which consequences may be derived from this phenomenon for present-day discourse on the Holy Spirit?
An essential background to the occurrence of the Holy Spirit as Mother is, of course, the fact that the Hebrew word for Spirit, ruach, is in nearly all cases feminine. The first Christians, all of whom were Jews, took this over. Also in Aramaic the word for Spirit, rucha, is feminine. All this, however, does not fully account for the early Jewish Christian practice. A close reading of the relevant texts will reveal more.
A. Jewish Christian sources
1. Origen and the ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’
The first prooftext, which already brings in medias res, is from the Greek church father Origen (c. 185-254). In his Commentary on the Gospel of John, he says:
If any one should lend credence to the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06655b.htm" Gospel according to the Hebrews, where the Saviour Himself says, “My Mother (mētēr), the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm" Holy Spirit, took me just now by one of my hairs and carried me off to the great Mount Tabor,” he will have to face the difficulty of explaining how the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm" Holy Spirit can be the Mother (mētēr) of Christ when She was herself brought into HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05543b.htm" existence through the Word. But neither the passage nor this difficulty is hard to explain. For if he who does the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15624a.htm" will of the Father in heaven [Mt. 12:50] is Christ’s brother and sister and mother (mētēr), and if the name of brother of Christ may be applied, not only to the race of HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm" men, but to beings of diviner rank than they, then there is nothing absurd in the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm" Holy Spirit’s being His Mother (mētēr), every one being His mother who does the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15624a.htm" will of the Father in heaven.
Origen, Commentary on the Gospel of John 2, 12 (Preuschen 67)
Origen, who in all probability dictated these lines when he was in Palestinian Caesarea, refers to a ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’. Until today there is much discussion about the origin and contents of this Gospel, but all specialists agree that it was of Jewish Christian provenance. Apart from several other things, we learn from this quote that, sometime in the beginning of the second century CE, the Jewish Christians of this Gospel spoke of the Holy Spirit as Mother (mētēr).
The same is evident in another quote from Origen:
... but if one accepts (the following): “My Mother (mētēr), the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm" Holy Spirit, took me just now and carried me off to the great Mount Tabor,” one could see who is his Mother (mētēr).
Origen, Homilies on Jeremiah 15, 4 (Klostermann 128)
From both quotes we may also learn that Origen himself accepted the concept of the Holy Spirit as Mother.
2. Jerome and the ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’
The church father Jerome (c. 342-420), who spent many years in Bethlehem, makes mention of several passages from the Gospel of the Hebrews, too. In his Commentary on Micah, he says:
... and he should believe in the Gospel, which has been edited according to the Hebrews, which we have translated recently, in which it is said of the person of the Saviour: “My Mother (mater), the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm" Holy Spirit, took me just now by one of my hairs ...”.
Jerome, Commentary on Micah 2, 7, 6 (Adriaen 513)
The essence of the same quote from the Gospel of the Hebrews is found in Jerome’s Commentary on Ezekiel:
... and this relates to the Holy Spirit, who is mentioned with a female name (nomine feminino) among the Hebrews. For also in the Gospel which is of the Hebrews and is read by the Nazaraeans, the Saviour is introduced saying: “Just now, my Mother (mater), the Holy Spirit, took me up ...”.
Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel 4, 16, 13 (Glorie 178).
In his Commentary on Isaiah, Jerome states:
And also this: (in the text) “like the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress” [Ps. 123: 2], the maid is the soul and the mistress (dominam) is the Holy Spirit. For also in that Gospel written according to the Hebrews, which the Nazaraeans read, the Lord says: “Just now, my Mother (mater), the HYPERLINK "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm" Holy Spirit, took me”. Nobody should be offended by this, for among the Hebrews the Spirit is said to be of the feminine gender (genere feminino), although in our language it is called to be of masculine gender and in the Greek language neuter.
Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah 11, 40, 9 (Adriaen 459)
While Jerome was well acqainted with the old Jewish Christian tradition of the femininity of the Holy Spirit, which in his time was still alive among the ‘Nazaraeans’, who read the ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’, he considered it to be a question of language only.
3. Epiphanius and Hippolytus on the prophet Elxai
For the Jewish Christians themselves, however, it was not merely a question of language. Apart from the Gospel according to the Hebrews, this is testified by a number of testimonies regarding the prophet Elxai. This Jewish Christian prophet—in the various sources also named as Elchasai, Alchasaios, Elkesai and Elxaios— is said to have received the revelation written about in the Book of Elchasai in Mesopotamia in the year 116-117.
The church father Epiphanius (c. 315-430), for many years bishop of Salamis and the metropolitan of Cyprus, transmits this revelation as follows:
Next he describes Christ as a kind of power and also gives His dimensions (...). And the Holy Spirit is (said to be) like Christ, too, but She is a female being (thēleian) (...).
Epiphanius, Panarion 19, 4, 1-2 (Holl I, 219)
Later on in his book, Epiphanius reports essentially the same:
And he (i.e., Elxai) supposed also that the Holy Spirit stands over against Him (i.e., Christ) in the shape of a female being (en eidei thēleian) (...)
Epiphanius, Panarion 30, 17, 6 (Holl I, 375)
Earlier the learned Hippolytus (c. 170-c. 236), a Christian presbyter at Rome, had transmitted the same tradition on Elchasai:
There should also be a female (thēleian) with Him (i.e., with Christ as an angel) (...) The male is the Son of God and the female (thēleian) is called the Holy Spirit
Hippolytus, Refutatio 9, 13, 3 (Wendland 251)
4. The Pseudo-Clementines
A next testimony to the Holy Spirit’s femininity may be derived from the so-called Pseudo-Clementines. The Pseudo-Clementines is a work circulated under the name of Clement of Rome (fl. c. 96), which came down to us in two fourth-century forms: the Greek Homilies and the Latin Recognitions. Both forms contain very old Jewish Christian source material. The Jewish Christian concept of the Spirit as a feminine Being is, by implication, preserved in one of the Homilies:
And Peter answered: ‘One is He who said to His Wisdom, “Let us make a man” [Gen. 1:26]. His Wisdom (sophia), with Her (Greek: hei, 3rd p. sing. feminine) He Himself always rejoiced [Prov. 8:30] just as (hōsper) with His own Spirit (pneumati).
Ps.-Clementines, Hom. 16, 12, 1 (Rehm 223)
The text identifies Wisdom with the Holy Spirit. This equation of Wisdom (chokma, sophia) and holy Spirit (ruach, pneuma) has old parallels in Jewish and Jewish Christian traditions. Already in the Jewish book Wisdom of Solomon, preserved in Greek as part of the Septuagint and being in high esteem among most early Christian writers, one finds this equation. For instance in Wisdom 9, 17 it runs:
Who has learned thy (i.e., God’s) counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom (sophian) and sent thy holy Spirit (pneuma) from on high?
Wisdom of Solomon 9, 17 (Revised Standard Version)
Wisdom is equated with the Holy Spirit and both are considered to be feminine. Hence one understands how in early Christian tradition Christ is so often considered to be the child of mother Sophia or the Holy Spirit. In essence, both traditions express the same concept. The oldest patristic testimonies to this concept are the texts from Origen and Jerome quoted above.
In interpreting all these testimonies, one should bear in mind that ancient Jewish Christianity did not express itself in Greek discursive terminology, but in Semitic metaphorical language. Or, stated otherwise: the Jewish Christians expressed themselves in images, not in logical concepts. Accordingly, one may also understand that the Christian concept of Trinity is not merely due to Greek philosophical thinking, but has genuine and extremely old sources in Jewish Christian writings. One may reread the statements of Hippolytus and Epiphanius on Elxai’s vision of God with his Son and the female Spirit as quoted above.
5. Theophilus and Irenaeus
The influence of the archaic Jewish Christian tradition on Spirit and Sophia is even found in Greek Christian authors such as Theophilus of Antioch (fl. later 2nd c.) and Irenaeus of Lyon (c. 130-c. 200). In his writing Against Autolycus, the Greek bishop and apologist Theophilus wrote for instance:
God made everything through His Logos and Sophia, for “by His Logos the heavens were made firm and by His Spirit all their power” [Ps.32:6] (...)
Similarly the three days prior to the luminaries [cf. Gen. 1] are types of the Triad (triados), of God and His Word and His Wisdom.
Theophilus, Ad Autol. 1, 7; 2, 15 (Grant 10 & 52).
In Greek speaking bishop Irenaeus’ work Against Heresies, which is mainly transmitted in Latin, it runs inter alia:
... the Son and the Holy Spirit (Spiritus), the Word and the Wisdom (Sapientia) (...)
For with Him were always present the Word and the Wisdom (Sapientia), the Son and the Spirit (Spiritus)
Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 4, 7, 4 and 20, 1 (Rousseau 464 & 626)
6. The Pastor of Hermas
The Shepherd of Hermas is a rather enigmatic and, in all probability, composed document which originated in Rome between the end of the first and the middle of the second century. Its final form consists of five ‘Visions’, twelve ‘Mandates’ and ten ‘Similitudes’. In the second and third centuries, it was accepted as Scripture by several ecclesiastical authors and even Didymus the Blind, a contemporary of Athanasius in the fourth century, included it in his canon of Scripture. It is also found in the highly important biblical manuscript Codex Sinaiticus, dating from the same time. In many of its utterances, the Shepherd reveals its Jewish Christian provenance.
One of these Jewish Christian features is the concept of the Holy Spirit as feminine. Although the Shepherd of Hermas (now generally classified as one of the ‘Apostolic Fathers’) uses the word ‘spirit’ in a variety of ways, in several cases ‘spirit’ appears to mean ‘Holy Spirit’. One of these cases is Similitude IX where the Holy Spirit is presented in the image of twelve virgins (parthenoi). The plural should not led us astray here. Elsewhere in the Shepherd the Holy Spirit—in her equivalent the Church—is described as being pre-existent and also as an old women (gunē presbutis) (Vis. I, 2, 2; cf. e.g. II, 4, 1 ff.: presbutera).
7. Melito of Sardis
Some decades later, and in another part of the Roman Empire, Melito of Sardis († c. 190) composed his homily On the Passover. It became famous after its discovery and publication by Campbell Bonner in 1940. In its newest editions one finds some fragments added, the seventeenth of which reads as follows:
Hymn the Father, you holy ones;
sing to your Mother (tēi mētri), virgins.
We hymn, we exalt (them) exceedingly, we holy ones.
You have been exalted to be brides and bridegrooms,
for you have found your bridegroom, Christ.
Drink for wine, brides and bridegrooms, ...
Melito, Frg. 17 (Hall 84-85)
It does not seems to be beyond doubt that the fragment, which follows On the Passover in a Bodmer Papyrus Codex, really stems from Melito. In any case it is a liturgical dialogue, if not part from Melito’s sermon, then perhaps of a baptismal liturgy. In its main theme and imagery, On the Passover is close to Jewish Christian thinking in general and Jewish Paschal tradition in particular. In the just quoted fragment, the Mother is without a doubt the Holy Spirit.
B. Sources from East and West Syria
As we have just seen with Theophilus, Irenaeus, the Pastor Hermae and (perhaps) Melito, the concept of the Spirit as feminine is sometimes found as an archaic reminiscence of Jewish Christianity in later Greek writers. However, in several Christian writings stemming from Syria, which mainly had Syriac (a branch of Aramaic) as their original language, this speaking of the Holy Spirit as feminine really abounds.
1. The Gospel of Thomas
Apart from some Greek scraps, the Gospel of Thomas has been mainly transmitted in a Coptic translation found in the second codex of the ‘gnostic’ library which, in December 1945, was discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. Many researchers maintain that the Gospel of Thomas—in any case in its original form(s)—was not ‘gnostic’ at all, nor even tincted with typical ‘gnostic’ ideas, but a fine example of primitive Jewish and Syrian Christianity. One of its logia reads as follows:
(Jesus said:) Whoever does not hate his father and his mother in My way will not be able to be a (disciple) to me. And whoever does (not) love (his father) and his mother in My way will not be able to be a (disciple) to me, for My mother (tamaay) (...) but (My) true (Mother) gave me the Life.
Gospel of Thomas, logion 101 (Guillaumont a.o. 50; Nagel 152)
Here, the true Mother is the Holy Spirit.
2. The Acts of Thomas
The Acts of Thomas recount the missionary activities of the apostle Judas Thomas. It is generally agreed that the composite work, which has survived in several Syriac and Greek manuscripts, was written in Syriac sometime before the middle of the third century. It contains many archaic elements pointing to early Jewish Christian tradition in Syria.
One of these archaic Jewish Christian elements is the concept of the Holy Spirit as feminine. It is clearly found in the following texts transmitted in Greek:
And the apostle arose and sealed them (...): “Come, compassionate Mother (mētēr); (...) Come, Mother (mētēr) of the seven houses (...); Come, Holy Spirit (pneuma) and cleanse their loins and their heart, and seal them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (pneumatos)”.
Acta Thomae 27 (Lipsius-Bonnet 142-143)
“ ... we praise and glorify You (Christ), and Your invisible Father, and Your Holy Spirit (pneuma), (and) the Mother (mētera) of all creation”.
Acta Thomae 39 (Lipsius-Bonnet 157)
“Come, secret Mother (mētēr); Come, You who (fem.) are manifest in your deeds; You who (fem.) gives joy and rest to those who are united to You (fem.)”.
Acta Thomae 50 (Lipsius-Bonnet 166)
One may also compare Acta Thomae 7 (the Syriac text speaks of the glorification of ‘the Father, the Lord of all’ and ‘the Spirit, His Wisdom’), whereas the Greek text has: ‘The Father of truth and the Mother of Wisdom’) and Acta Thomae 133 (‘We name over you [i.e., the ‘bread of life’ in the eucharist] the name of the Mother [= the Holy Spirit]).
3. Gospels in Old Syriac, the Odes of Solomon, the Didascalia and the Apostolic Constitutions
A number of other writings from the Syrian world may be briefly dealt with under one heading. The first is the Old Syriac Version of the Gospels, which reaches back to the second century and transmits Jn 14:26 as follows:
... but that (Syr.: hi = she) Spirit, the Paraclete that my Father will send to you in my name, She (Syr. hi) shall teach you everything, She (hi) shall remind you of all what I say.
Evangelium da-Mepharrese (tr. Burkitt 510-511)
In all probability, the Odes of Solomon are a (Jewish) Christian work which is almost certainly written in Syria or Palestine in the course of the same second century. In Ode 36, 3 it runs:
The Spirit of the Lord rested upon me,
and She lifted me up to the height (...)
She brought me forth before the face of the Lord (...)
For according to the greatness of the Most High,
so She made me (...)
Odes of Solomon 36, 3a (tr. Lattke 492)
The Didascalia Apostolorum (‘Teaching of the Apostles’) is an ancient ‘Church Order’ which seems to have been composed in Syria in the earlier half of the third century. In the Syriac text of chapter 11 it runs:
This (i.e., the bishop) is your chief and your leader, and he is your mighty king. He rules in the place of the Almighty: but let him be honoured by you as God (...). But the deacon stands in the place of Christ, and do you love him. And the deaconess shall be honoured by you in the place of the Holy Spirit (...).
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