It was, therefore, no mere play of words which induced the apostle to bring these two things together. The second point of resemblance is the necessity of intense feeling. We have fullness-fullness, it may be, produced by outward stimulus, or else by an inpouring of the Spirit. Now, this desire lies at the bottom of many forms of life, which are apparently as diverse as possible. It constitutes the fascination of the gambler's life.
Every moment is one of feeling.
This, too, constitutes the charm of all those forms of life in which the gambling feeling is predominant-where a sense of skill is blended with a mixture of chance. Now, the proper and natural outlet for this feeling. is the life of the Spirit. These are the pentecostal hours of our existence, when the Spirit comes as a mighty rushing wind, in cloven tongues of fire, filling the soul with God. The dissimilarity, or contrast, in St. Paul's idea. The one fullness begins from without, the other from within.