There is (é). Only in Paul (1 Cor. vi. 5; Col. iii. 11) and Jas. i. 17. “Ew is the abbreviation of eveoti there is in or among.*
Male nor female (dpcev cai O9Av). Comp. Matt. xix. 4. He has said “Jew nor Greek” ; “bond nor free.” Here he says “male and (kat) female”; perhaps because political and
* Ellicott and Lightfoot deny this, and say that @ is the lengthened form of the adverbialised preposition éy, with which éo7: must be supplied. But both retain in their texts the accentuation €, whereas the lengthened form of the preposition is évi. In 1 Cor. vi. 5, and often in Class., @ and év are found together, showing that @ stands independently as a compound word. See Xen. Anab. v. 8, 11; Hdt. vii. 112; Plato, Phaedo, 77 E.
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social distinctions are alterable, while the distinction of sex is unalterable, though absorbed in the new relation to Christ. Yet see Col. iii. 11, where we find, “not Greek and Jew, cir- cumcision and uncircumcision.”
Ye are all one. One moral personality. The individual differences are merged in the higher unity into which all are raised by their common life in Christ. This is the one new man, Eph. ii. 15.
29. Abraham’s seed. As being one with Christ. See vv. 7,16. In Rom. iv. Paul shows that Abraham was justi- fied by faith, and was thus constituted the spiritual father of all believers in Christ, whether circumcised or uncircumcised. The purpose of God in making the inheritance of the promise dependent on faith was that the promise might be sure to all the seed. Abraham, he says, is “the father of ws all” (Rom. iv. 16). This spiritual paternity does away with the current Jewish notion of physical paternity. Physical relationship with Abraham is of no significance in the economy of salva- tion. The apostle “ discovers the basis of Christian univers- alism in the very life of him in whose person theocratic particularism was founded. He has demonstrated the exist- ence of a time when he represented Gentilism, or, to speak more properly, mankind in general; and it was during this period, when he was not yet a Jew, but simply a man, that he received salvation” (Godet).