Notes Expository of the Greek of the First Chapter of the Romans; With Remarks on the Force of Certain Synonyms, Etc - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... cording to the Spirit" is, as I have said, an expression contrasted with "according to the flesh"--these two expressions indicating severally two different conditions of being. The words "in power" are connected with the words "according to the Spirit"--power being as necessary a characteristic of a condition "according to the Spirit" in resurrection, as weakness is characteristic of a condition here "according to the flesh." Compare 2 Cor. xiii. 4, already quoted. It should be observed that the words "according to the Spirit" refer to that form and condition of being into which resurrection brings; and not to the agency of the Spirit as bringing into that condition. If that had been intended, the words would have been not Kara irvtvfia, but Bia Tov irvtvfiarog. Some have thought that the words "Spirit of Holiness" (which, as to form of expression, is a Hebraism, just as we say in English a "man of integrity" or "of uprightness" which is stronger and more emphatic than saying "an upright man")--some have regarded these words as a mere synonyme for "The Holy Spirit:" but there is doubtless a difference. If the Spirit had been referred to in respect of any peculiar function or office that He distinctively exercises as the Third Person in the Godhead, the words used would, no doubt, have been, "The Holy Spirit;" but inasmuch as the passage is intended to direct our minds to a mode or condition of existence which attaches to the Spirit, not distinctively, but which He has in common with the other Persons in the Godhead, the distinctive appellation, viz., To Ayiov irvtvfjia is not used, but a wider term. Angels are spirits (irutypara Heb. i.), but they would not be described as having a condition of being /cara irvtvpa ayiu)Tvvrig. Such a condition of existence...

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