…wonderful character, waiting for the consolation of Israel. I want to kinda speak just a moment about Simeon. Let’s take him as an old sage, wonderful old character. Some Orient theologians tell us…The historians tell us that he was in his eighties, white beard, white hair. And as he…?…go around, minister around there in the temple…But he had a testimony that—that he wasn’t going to die until he seen the Lord’s Christ. And here’s where he based his—his ground onto that. He said, “The Holy Ghost revealed it to me.” Now, do you believe in the works of the Holy Ghost? Now, there is no two Holy Ghosts, is there? Just one Holy Ghost, that’s the Spirit of God…?… And now, the Holy Spirit revealed to him by revelation that, not by vision; it was revealed to him that he was not going to die until he seen the Lord’s Christ. What a statement for a man of his caliber as a priest at the temple, well-thought-of among the people, and yet to make a statement like that, that he wasn’t going to die until he seen the Christ.

Deep Calleth Unto the Deep, 1952-08-09, Chicago, IL, §1