It comes from the word which means spirit.
[301]It was at Pentecost that for the first time God's great mystery began to be understood by the disciples.

The mystery of God has been a stumbling block to both Jews and Christians so-called; but in God's due time he will make known to all the secret of his mystery and then all rightly exercised by this will rejoice with exceeding joy.
[302]The mystery is _the Christ_, the great one through whom redemption, deliverance and blessing will ultimately come to all mankind who receive Christ and obey him.

God foreshadowed his mystery for ages by the use of various men.

Yet all of that time he kept it secret.
[303]Death has been and is the great enemy of man.

Death is the very opposite of life.