First, it tells us that there was a tradition among a sect of Early Christians which believed that the Holy Spirit was our Lord's spiritual mother. Second, Jerome - a more orthodox figure cannot be imagined - admits that the Hebrew word for "spirit" (Ruach) is feminine, meaning that for the 1st Century Christians - who were largely operating in the Aramaic world (Paul's churches were tiny in comparison) - the Holy Spirit was a feminine figure. It was lost in the translation from Hebrew into Greek, and then it was changed to a masculine gender when it was translated from Greek into Latin.
Kwanza, yanatuambia kuwa kulikuwa na tamaduni kati ya dhehebu ya Wakristo walioishi zamani walioamini kuwa Roho Mtakatifu alikuwa mama yake wa kiroho, Bwana wetu. Pili, Jerome – mtu halisi zaidi, alishangaza - alipokiri kuwa Neno la Kiebrania la “roho” (Ruach) ni ya jinsia ya kike, kumaanisha kuwa kwa Wakristo wa karne ya 1 – ambao walikuwa wakiishi katika dunia ya Kiaramu (Makanisa ya Paulo yalikuwa madogo katika kulinganisha) – Roho Mtakatifu alikuwa kiumbe wa kike. Yote yalipotea kati ya kutafsiri Kiebrania hadi Kigiriki, na tena ikabadilishwa katika jinsia ya kiume ambapo ilitafsiriwa kutoka Kigiriki hadi Latin.