The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 453

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:

:

DEFECTIVE LEARNING To which we add thenes

three

more from

Plato,

4^3

and a fourth from Demos-

:

Plato, "Protag.," 352, B. Iluf ix^^i ""POf

tTricTiifiqv

ndTepov Koi tovtS aoi SoKel oonep role TroX^Zf avOpitnoiq,

;

Plato, "Phsedo," 61, A. 'YnEAa/i^avov (lovaiKTiv iroielv,

...

;

ug

/cat

:

kfiol

ovtu Mirviov, bnep

Plato, "Theaetetus," 145, D. Xoipia 6e

y

olfiac ao<pol ol ao(poi

vai

;

Demosthenes, " Contra Aphob. a avipeq

'Eyo) yap,

Eidug 6vTa Selv

K.

InpaTTOv^ tovto

(jn^oaoipiag /lev ovatjc fieyicTTjg /novaiKf/c, ef^ov de

SiKaoTal^ rrepl

—tovto

,

"

TTJg

eiriKtXeiecv,

tovto npaTTovrog.

de vvv Sta^ipei tl iniaT^nrig.

11:

fiapTvpiac

Tijg

h tu

ypafifiaTei(f} yeypa/nfiivrfc

tov ayuva, koX nepl Toirov Tyv tj^tpov vfiag olaovTag kirtaTa/iEvog

fioi

(prjdriv

T, A.

For the present we postpone the discussion of the second point to another time. evident that these citations upset all the quasi-learning " And that not of of this defective scholarship and that the words, neutral with the pronoun, in just God," gift of yourselves, it is the

But

it is

;

purest Greek, can refer to faith ; hence that all this fuss about the difference of gender, not only is without any foundation, but also leaves a very poor impression regarding the scholarship of the

who

men

raised the objection.

Moreover, we must also show not only that the ancient rendering of Ephes. ii. 8 jnay be correct, but also that it can not be anything else but correct. It

reads

:

"

For by grace are ye saved through

faith,

and that not

the^//7 of God ; not of works, lest any man should ¥ov \^Q zxQ His workmanship." The principal thought is the boast. mighty fact that the causative worker of our salvation is God. St. Paul expresses this in the most forcible and most positive terms by

of yourselves,

saying:

"

then

it

If

You

it is

are saved

should follow,

from "

grace, through g^ace,

And

and by grace."

that not of yourselves,

it is

the gift

we would have a dragging sentence of superfluous clauses, thrice repeating the same thing: "You have received it by grace, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." And this might do, if it read, "You are saved by grace, and therefore not of yourselves"; of God,"

but

it

does not read

The conjunction

"

so.

It is

simply,

"

and that not of yourselves."

and" stands in the way.

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