The Spirit of God hath made me
As a man; so every man is made by God, and not by himself;
Father, Son, and Spirit, are his Makers or Creators, as we read
of them in the plural number, ( Psalms 149:2
) ( Ecclesiastes
12:1 ) ; and this is a proof of the deity of the Spirit, who
was not only concerned in the creation of all things, garnishing
the heavens, and moving upon the face of the waters on the earth;
but in the formation of man:
and the breath of the mighty hath given me
life;
the same with the Spirit of God, the allusion is to the creation
of man at first, when God breathed into him the breath of life,
and he became a living soul: life natural is from God, he is the
God of our life, he gives all the mercies of life, and by him is
this life preserved; and the whole is the effect of almighty
power: now this is observed by Elihu to Job, to encourage him to
attend to him without fear, since he was a man, a creature of
God, as he was: it may be understood of his spiritual formation,
the Spirit of God remakes men, or makes them new men, new
creatures; this is done in regeneration, which is the work of the
Holy Spirit; hence regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost,
are put together; and being a work of almighty power, is proof of
the deity of the Spirit of God; it is he that quickens men when
dead in trespasses and sins, and makes them alive to God; which
appears by their spiritual breathings after divine things, and by
the exercise of their spiritual senses, and by their performance
of spiritual actions; and now Elihu, being a man regenerated and
quickened by the Spirit, might more justly claim the attention of
Job, since what he should say was what he had heard, felt, and
seen, as good man, one that had an experience of divine and
spiritual things.