ing Spirit (Trvevfia ^woTTOLovv'), i. e., a Spirit having life in Himself, and a source of life to others. (1 Cor. xv. 45.) (9.) The proper object of supreme love, whom not to love, justly subjects the soul to eternal death. (1 Cor. xvi. 22.) (10.) The object of prayer (1 Coi\ xvi. 23), from whom grace is to be sought. (11.) He gives success in preaching the gospel, causing his ministers to tri- umph. (2 Cor. ii. 14.) (12.) The vision of his glory transforms the soul into his likeness. (2 Cor. iii. 17, 18.) (13.) In his face is the glory of God, to which those only are blind who are lost. (2 Cor. iv. 3-6.) (14.) His presence, or being with Him, constitutes the believer's heaven. (2 Cor. v. 1-8.) (15.) Before his judgment-seat all men are to be arraigned. (2 Cor. v. 10.) (16.) His love is the highest motive to action. (2 Cor. v. 14.)
Gralatians. (1.) Paul says that he was an Apostle not by the will of man, but by Jesus Christ, (i. 1.) (2.) The conversion of the soul is effected by the knowledge of Christ as the Son of God. (ii. 16.) (3.) Spiritual life is maintained by faith of which Christ is the object, (ii. 20, 21.) (4.) Christ hves in us, as God is said to dwell in his people, (ii. 20.) (5.) He was the object of Abraham's faith, (iii. 6-9.) (6.) He was Abraham's seed in whom all nations are blessed, (iii. 16.) (7.) By faith in Him we become the sons of God. (iii. 26.) (8.) The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Christ, (iv. 6.) (9.) His will is our law. (vi. 2.) (10.) His grace or favour the source of all good. (vi. 18.)
JSphesians. (1.) In Christ and under Him all the objects of God's redeeming love are to be united in one harmonious whole, (i. 10.) (2.) In Hira we have eternal life, or are made the heirs of God. (i. 11-14.) (3.) He is exalted above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, i. e., above all rational creatures, (i. 21.) (4.) In Him we are quickened, or raised from the death of sin, made par- takers of spii'itual life, and exalted to heaven, (ii. 1-6.) (5.) In iii. 9, God is said to have created all things by Jesus Christ. (The text, however, in that passage is somewhat doubtful.) (6.) He fills the universe, (i. 23, and iv. 10.) (7.) He is the head of the Church, from whom it derives its hfe. (iv. 16.) (8.) He sanctifies the Church, (v. 26.) (9.) The discharge of all social duties is enforced by the consideration of the authority of Christ. "We are to serve men as doing service to Him. (vi. 1-9.)
614 PART I. — THEOLOGY. [Ch. VII. — Divinity of Chbibt
PMlippians. In Philippians, besides the usual recognition of Christ as the source and giver of grace and peace, which comprehend all spirit- ual blessings, and the acknowledgment of Him as the end of our being (i. 21, 22), we have in ii. 6-11 the clearest declaration of the divinity of Christ. It is said, (1.) That He " was (or ex- isted, V7rapx«i') in the form of God," i. e., was God both as to nature and manifestation. He could not be the one without being the other. The word iJ^op<i>rj may mean either the mode of manifesta- tion, that which appears, as when it is said " the king of heaven appeared on earth ev fJiop4>y avOpw-n-ov ; " or the nature or essence (^uVts or ovaLo) itself. The latter view is adopted by most of the fathers. The former, however, is more in accordance with the common usage of the word, and with the immediate context. He who existed in the form of God, took upon Him the form of a ser- vant (/xop^T/i/ SovAov), i. e., the real condition of a servant. (2.) He is declared to be equal with God. The to-a eTvat dew he did not, considered as an apTrayjxov, i. g,, an act of robbery, or an unjust assumption. He was fully entitled to claim equality with God. (3.) This truly divine person assumed the fashion of a man, which is explained by saying He was found " in the likeness of men." He appeai'ed in form, carriage, language, mode of think- ing, speaking, feeling, and acting, like other men. He was not purus p)utus homo, a mere man, but " God incarnate," God mani- fest in the flesh. (4.) This divine person, clothed in man's nature, humbled Himself even unto death, even to the death of the cross. (5.) Therefore He (not God, or the divine nature in Christ, but the Theanthropos), is exalted above every name that is named, " that at the name of J^sus (i. e., the name of the Theanthropos, as it is He as a divine person clothed in the nature of man, who is the object of worship), ever}' knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth." This is an ex- haustive amplification. It includes the whole rational creation, from the highest archangel to the weakest saint ; all, all that have life acknowledge Christ to be what God alone can be, their supreme and absolute Lord. It is because Christ is and has done what is represented, that the Apostle says, in the following chapter, that He counted all things as nothing for the knowledge of Christ, and that his only desire was to be found in Him and clothed in his righteousness. This divine Redeemer is to come again, and " shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glori-