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Spirit of Christ

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It is an expression found in 1 Peter 1:11,¹¹Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1 Peter 1:11) which means more than the Holy Ghost. It is Christ speaking, in spirit as in Psa. 22 Of course all is recorded by the Spirit 1 Pet, 3:18, 19, is a little different, here Christ is looked at (Jehovah of old) as pleading with men (whose spirits are now in prison) before the flood according to His words in Gen. 6:3³And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. (Genesis 6:3).