A short and powerful quote from Professor John Webster on how hearing and knowing the Word of God is both a genuinely creaturely act and an act enabled by the Holy Spirit at the same time:
"If human creatures hear and know [the Word of God], it is because God the Holy Spirit makes them hear and know. This hearing and knowing are genuinely creaturely acts - were they not, there would be no fellowship between God and creatures but simply a divine utterance into a void. But the hearing and knowing of human creatures are spiritual acts, that is, acts for whose description we must employ language about the Holy Spirit."
Webster, John B. “Biblical Reasoning.” Anglican Theological Review 90 (2008): 733–751 (quote from p.739).
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