By Him (év avre). Rev., correctly, 7 Him. In fellowship with.
As the truth is in Jesus (caJas éotw adj Seva év TO Inaod). As corresponds with not so. Ye did not in such a manner learn Christ if ye were taught in such a manner as is truth, ete. Render, as Rev., as truth is in Jesus. Schaff paraphrases: “If you were taught so that what you received is true as embodied in the personal Saviour.” “Taught in the lines of eternal fact and spiritual reality which meet in Him” (Moule). Jesus
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is used rather than Christ: the historical rather than the official name. The life of Christianity consists in believing fellowship with the historic Jesus, who is the Christ of prophecy.
22. That ye put away. Dependent upon ye were taught, and specifying the purport of the teaching.
The old man. See on Rom. vi. 6. Compare Col. iii. 9.
Which is corrupt (tov dIepouevov). The A. V. misses the force of the participle. The verb is passive, which is being corrupted,* and marks the progressive condition of corruption which characterizes “the old man.” Rey., correctly, wamxeth corrupt.
According to the deceitful lusts (xara tas émuSupuias Ths aratns). Rev., correctly, dusts of deceit. On the vicious rend- ering of similar phrases in A. V., see on ch. i.19. Deceit is personified.
23. In the spirit of your mind (76 mvevpare Tod vods tudr). The sport is the human spirit, having its seat in and directing the mind. In the New Testament the Holy Spirit is never de- signated so as that man appears as the subject of the Spirit. We have Spirit of adoption, of holiness, of God, but never Holy Spirit of man. Furthermore, the apostle’s object is to set forth the moral self-activity of the christian life. Hence Treva spirit, is here the higher life-principle in man by which the human reason, viewed on its moral side—the organ of moral thinking and knowing is informed. The renewal takes place, not in the mind, but in the spirit of it. ‘The change is not in mind psychologically, either in its essence or in its operation ; and neither is it in the mind as if it were a superficial change of opinion either on points of doctrine or practice: but it is in the spirit of the mind; in that which gives mind both its bent and its materials of thought. It is not simply in the spirit as if it lay there in dim and mystic quietude ; but it is in the spirit of the mind; in the power which, when changed itself, radically
* Though some take it as middle, corrupteth himself.
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alters the entire sphere and business of the inner mechanism ” (Eadie).
24. New man (xavvov). See on Matt. xxvi. 29.
Created («tuc9évra). See on ch. ii. 10.
In righteousness and true holiness (év ducavocdvy Kal OawTnTL THS adnJelas). Rev., correctly, in righteousness and holiness of truth. See on Luke i. 75. Truth. Opposed to de- ceit, ver. 22, and likewise personified. Righteousness and holi- ness are attributes of truth.
25. Falsehood (70 webdos). Lit., the lie; used abstractly. See on John viii. 44.
Members one of another. Compare Rom. xii. 5; 1 Cor. xii. 12-27. Chrysostom says: “ Let not the eye lie to the foot, nor the foot to the eye. If there be a deep pit, and its mouth covered with reeds shall present to the eye the appearance of solid ground, will not the eye use the foot to ascertain whether it is hollow underneath, or whether it is firm and resists? Will the foot tell a lie, and not the truth as itis? And what, again, if the eye were to spy a serpent or a wild beast, will it le to the foot ?”