The Epistle to the Romans Author:David Brown Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 5 holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; by whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the. 6 faith among all nations, for his name; ... more »among whom are ye. 7 also the called of Jesus Christ: to all that be in Rome, would have been to mislead his readers if he had put "holy" before "spirit," he warily changes his form of expression, and says " according to the spirit of holiness," emphatically to proclaim that, as contrasted with " flesh," His is a spirit of absolute, essential holiness. (2) Others explain these words of the two conditions of Christ's life—His earthly life here, in which His higher nature was obscured, and His resurrection life, in which all His glory was revealed. But this makes no proper contrast between "flesh" and "spirit;" for if " the flesh " denotes His human nature, pure and simple, " the spirit" should denote His other nature, pure and simple, as distinguished from the human.1 by the resurrection from the dead—Gr. ' resurrection of the dead ' (and so in the R. V.) ; for in Christ's own resurrection that of all the dead was seen to result. In this light the apostles constantly held it up, and hence it was that the Sadducees—"who say that there is no resurrection"—"were grieved because they preached in Jesus the resurrection of the dead" (as rightly rendered in the R. V.), Acts iv. 2, and see xxiii. 6. even Jesus Christ our Lord. Here at length we have the name of Him who was all along in view. 5. through whom (as the ordained Channel) we received grace and apostleship—both at the same time, and the one in order to the other. for the obedience of faith—that is, that men might render to the Gospel the duty of believing it. Faith is set forth here as an act of obedience, and the first of all duties in those who hear it...« less