nos jiibent, ut conscientiie perpetno snspensoe htereant ac perplexa?. Quid autem hie Paulas? rcprobos esse testatur quiciinqiie dubitaiit an possideant Christum, et sint ex ilhus corpore. Quare sit nobis hoec sola recta fides, quae facit ut tuto, neque dubia opinione, sed stabiii constantique certitudi- ne, in gratia Dei acquiescamus. ElscAvhere, however, Calvin teaches a different doctrine, in so far as he admits that true believers are often disturbed by serious doubts and inward conflicts. See his Institutes, Lib. iii. cap. ii. IV, and Lib. iv. cap. xiv. 7. 8.
Knoio ye not your own selves hoio that Christ is m you. This version overlooks the connecting particle r) (o>'), the force of which indeed it is not easy to see. It may be that the apostle designed in these w^ords to shame or to rouse them. ' Examine yourselves, or are you so besotted or ignorant as not to know that Christ is in you ; that some thing is to be discovered by self-examination, unless ye are no Christians at all.' It may, however, be a direct appeal to the consciousness of his readers. ' Do you not recognize in yourselves, that is, are ye not conscious, that Christ is in you.' The construction in this clause is analogous to that in 1 Cor. 14, 37 and 16, 15. 'Know yourselves that, <fcc.,' equivalent to 'know that.' Winer 63, 3. The exj^ression Christ is in you^ does not mean ' Christ is among you as a people.' It refers to an hidwelling of Christ in the individual believer, as is plain from such pas- sages as GaL 2, 20, "Christ liveth in me," and Gal. 4, 19. Rom. 8, 10. Christ dwells in his people by his Si)irit. The presence of the Spirit is the presence of Christ. This is not a mere figurative expression, as when we say we have a friend in our heart — but a real truth. The Spirit of Christ, the Holy Ghost, is in the people of God collectively and individually, the ever-present source of a new kind of life, so that if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his. Rom. 8, 0. Unless ye he reiyrohates. The word reprobate^ in its theologi- cal sense, means one who is judicially abandoned to e^•erlast- ing perdition. Such is obviously not its sense here, otherwise all those not now converted would perish forever. The Avord is to be taken in its ordinary meaning, disapproved., nmoorthy of approhation. Any person or thing which cannot stand the test is dSoKt/Aos. Those therefore in Avhom Christ does not dwell cannot stand the test, and are proved to be Chiistians, if at all, only in name.