by faith, to have a just estimation of himself not in himself, but in his Lord Jesus Christ alone, whereby he is not unworthily to degrade himself, inasmuch as having been redeemed at such a price, and striving for such a great reward, for example, through the appearance of JdeXofyjjtfxs/as, will-worship : Acts xiii. 46 ; Kom. ii. 7 ; 1 Cor. vi. 15, iii. 21 vii. 23 ; 1 Thess. iv. 4. This estimation produces holy (piXonpiav, ambition (p/A&- rif&oupev, we labour with ambition), 2 Cor. v. 9 ; but it is restrained by true self-denial, and again is tarnished by the commandments of men [ver. 20, 21], which, because they bring to us nothing worth while, nothing worthy of estimation [nothing sv n/j,r, nvi], comp. ITeb. xiii. 9, have an entirely empty and vain appearance of wisdom and every good thing : comp. by all means, e/xJj, vainly, ver. 18. This passage is in consonance with Phil. iii. 19, where see the note ; and both accord with Hab. ii. 16, IIAH2MONHN ATIMIA2 ex dofyg, x.r.\., Thou hast filled thyself with shame for glory ; drink thou therefore also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered. But true ri^n, price or estimation [' honour'], is theirs who see the glory of the Lord, Ib., ver. 14. — TT^og TXjjf/ttoni)* r>j£ ffupxbi) to the satisfying of the jlesh : ^'k^a^ovri, satisfying to tlie full, satiety, generally denotes excess : cap%, Jlesh, does not signify the body, but is put as at ver. 18.1 Hilarius the deacon, whose commentary on the thirteen epistles of Paul is found among the works of Ambrose, on this pas sage, says : " Sagina carnalis sensus, traditio humana est," human tradition is the overloading (surfeiting) of the carnal sense or appetite. A golden sentence. Tradition puffs up ; it clogs the sense of heaven (the perception of heavenly things). 'EQsXo- Opvioxeia, x.r.x., and KXycftovfi rfa aapKog, are therefore in antithesis, and yet joined together. They put away true n^v, price, value, or estimation [< honour9"], that they may satisfy to the full the flesh ; vpbg denotes that which is regarded as the important concern, or the end, for the sake of which the other things (practices) are assumed (adopted).
v, of his fleshly mind : i.e. flesh, not literally, but in the spiritual application carnality. — ED.
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