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Per your comments regarding Plato and spiritual discernment. These are David and Joshua, so I’m not comparing them to Plato, but throwing this out for consideration. Pre-Pentacost Holy Spirit Examples:

1 Samuel 16:13 (New International Version)

13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.

Numbers 27:18 (New International Version)

18 So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, [a] and lay your hand on him.

Footnotes:

Numbers 27:18 Or Spirit

Thank you so very much for those beautiful Scriptures and for reminding us of Joshua and David!

Here’s another:

And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. – I Samuel 19:20

Who but God knows which people - great or small - He has touched to accomplish His will?

Praise God that since the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, starting at Pentecost, we Christians are actually indwelled by Him:

And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. – John 1:33

And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as [he did] unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God? – Acts 11:15-17

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. – John 14:16-17

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. – Romans 8:9

To God be the glory!