Economic Unity

...this identification is plainly not ontological, as if he were here obliterating the personal distinction between Christ and the Spirit. Such a view would be a too-flagrant contradiction of his uniform teaching elsewhere. Rather, the oneness expressed has in view a conjunction between Christ (as the last Adam) and the Spirit... Christ (as incarnate) experiences a spiritual qualification and transformation so thorough and an endowment with the Spirit so complete that as a result they can now be equated. This unprecedented possession of the Spirit and the accompanying change in Christ result in a unity so close that not only can it be said simply that the Spirit makes alive, but also that Christ as Spirit makes alive.

 

Richard Gaffin. Resurrection and Redemption (Philippsburg, NJ: Baker Book House, 1978), 87