[[19]] 2 Tim. i. 10.
[[20]] John vi. 50; viii. 51.
[[21]] See app. note E.
[[22]] 2 Thess. i. 7-10; 2 Cor. ii. 16.
[[23]] ver. 17.
DIVISION III. § 3. CHAPTER VI. 1-14.
The Christian life a living by dying.
It has now been made apparent that belief in Christ introduces a man into a new sphere of 'life in Christ' or 'state of grace'—a state, that is, in which the divine grace or goodwill is the atmosphere and motive force. And just as with his natural life he inherited all the taint and curse attaching to sin in the unredeemed manhood, so now in his new state he receives from Christ all the bountiful outpouring, not of acquittal only, but of divine life. What he is called to witness is the triumph of the divine goodwill over the old forces and tendencies of sin in himself and in the world.