one heart. It is not an exhortation to unanimity of feeling, or a declaration that such unanimity exists. Quasi diceret, nos penitus corpore et anima, non ex parte duntawat, debere esse wnritos. The context and the analogy of Scripture, as a comparison of parallel pas- sages would evince, prove that by spurt is meant the Holy Spirit. As there is one body, so there is one Spirit, which is the life of that body and dwells in all its members. ‘“ By one Spirit,” says the apostle, “are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.” 1 Cor. 12, 13. Of all believers, he says, ‘The Spirit of God dwelleth ' in you.” 1 Cor. 3,16; 6,19. Rom. 8, 9.11. There is no doctrine of Scripture more plainly revealed than that the Spirit of God dwells in all believers, and that his presence is the ultimate ground of their unity as the body of Christ. As the human body is one because pervaded by one soul; so the body of Christ is one be- cause it is pervaded by one and the same Spirit, who dwelling in all is a common principle of life. All sins against unity, are, therefore, sins against the Holy Ghost. They dissever that which he binds together. Our relation to Christ as members of his body; and our relation to the Holy Spirit who is our life, demands of us that we love our brethren and live at peace with them.
Even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. καθὼς καὶ ἐκλήθητε ἐν pid ἐλπίδι τῆς κλήσεως ὑμῶν. In- asmuch as. That is, believers are one body and have
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one spirit, because they have one hope. The fact that they all have the same high destiny, and are filled with the same expectations, proves that they are one. The unity of their hope is another evidence and element of the communion of saints. The Holy Ghost dwelling in them gives rise to the same aspirations, to the same anticipations of the same glorious inheritance, to a participation of which they had been called. The word hope is sometimes used for the things hoped for, as when the apostle speaks of the hope laid up in heaven. Col. 1, 5. See also Titus 2, 138. Heb. 6, 18. Most frequently of course it has its subjective sense, viz. the expectation of future good. There is no reason for de- parting from that sense here, though the other is inti- mately allied with it, and is necessarily implied. It is because the object is the same, that the expectation is thesame. Hope of your calling, is the hope which flows from your vocation. The inward, effectual call of the Holy Spirit gives rise to this hope for two reasons. First, because their call is to the inheritance of the saints in light. They naturally hope to obtain what they are invited to receive. They are invited to recon- ciliation and fellowship with God, and therefore they hope for his salvation; and in the second place, the nature of this call makes it productive of hope. It is at once an earnest and a foretaste of their future inher- itance. See ch. 1, 14, and1 Cor. 1, 22. It assures the believer of his interest in the blessings of redemption, Rom. 8, 16; and as a drop of water makes the thirsty traveller long for the flowing stream, so the first fruits