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The Holy Spirit that Our Lord promised would contain His Spirit (cf. John 14:18). The incarnate Christ could only be imparted at Pentecost because He had not died and ascended at that point. I don’t see how any impartation of the Holy Spirit prior to Pentecost could have included the incarnate Christ. This is probably why there was no full salvation possible before Pentecost, because the results of the Redemption could only be realized by us when Christ is within us. Our profound interior life requires us to walk in the Spirit in order for us to benefit from the graces of the Spirit (cf. Galatians 5:16-25).

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