of God cannot, with any regard to the usage of scriptural language, be explained here as meaning pious feelings, metonymically called Spii-it, because produced by his agency. The expression and context alike show that it must be understood of the Holy Ghost. God is said to dwell wherever he constantly manifests his presence. Hence, he dwelt in the tabernacle, the temple, in Zion, &c. In the New Testament the church is called a habitation of God, Eph. 2 : 22, &c., and individual Christians are said to be his temple, I Cor. 3:16. 6 : 19. The indwell- ing of the Spirit in Christians is spoken of in the passages referred to, and in many others, as 2 Tim. 1 : 14. 2 Cor. 6 : 16, &c.
JVow if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. It is evident that what was just called the Spirit of God, is here called the Spirit of Christ ; see Gal. 4 : 6. Phil. 1 : 19. 1 Pet. 1:11; of course the latter phrase cannot mean the disposition of Christ, but the Holy Spirit. He is called the Spirit of Christ, 1. Because possessed by Christ with- out measure, John 3 : 34. Acts 10: 38. Isa. 42 : 1, &c. 2. Because he is given or sent by Christ, John 1 : 33. 15 : 26. 16: 7. Luke 24: 49, &c. &c.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, &c. The connexion between this verse and the preceding is better seen if but in- stead of and is used. ' If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his, but if Christ be in him, then he is a partaker of the life of which Christ is the author,' &c. As in the vs. 7, 8, Paul had confirmed the declaration that " to be carnally minded is death ;" he, in vs. 10, 11, illustrates the proposition, that " to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
If Christ be in you is evidently of the same import with the preceding expressions, to have the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of God dwelling in us, which shows that the manner in which Christ dwells in his people is by the communication to them of the Holy Spirit. The possession of this Spirit is a pledge of life in its fullest sense, even to the resurrection of the body. Hence, Paul says, " the body is dead, indeed, on accotinl of sin i but the Spirit is life, because of righteousness ;^^ that is, 'To have the Spirit of God is to have life, for although the body is destined to die on account of sin, still the soul lives, in consequence of its justifi- cation and renovation, and even our mortal bodies are hereafter to be restored to life by that Spirit that dwelleth in us,' v. 11.
The body is dead because of sin. This expression and the whole verse have been very variously explained ; some understanding them of a spi- ritual, and others of a temporal death and resurrection. According to the former view, body is understood as equivalent to the word flesh, signify- ing corrupt nature; and dead means devoid of power ,- and the phrase because of sin is rendered as to sin. But this interpretation does violence to usage and the context. Body very rarely, if ever, has the sense thus ascribed to it, and when connected with the word dead, it certainly nevei has. In the very next verse, too, we have the words mortal bodies, which