[[8]] 'Inter regenerandum.' St. John will not speak of a wilful sinner as truly 'begotten of God,' 1 John iii. 9; v. 18, &c.
[[9]] See Dale, quoted in Ephesians, p. 86.
[[10]] Eph. vi. 12.
[[11]] Cf. 2 Thess. ii. 9-11: 'The working of Satan with all ... deceit of unrighteousness ... a working of error, that they should believe a lie.' 2 Cor. xi. 14: 'Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.' 1 Tim. ii. 14: 'The woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression.' Cf. Heb. iii. 13: 'The deceitfulness of sin.'
[[12]] It never appears to be used, as in classical Greek, for 'custom,' either in LXX or N.T.
DIVISION III. § 7. CHAPTER VIII. 1-11.
Life in the Spirit.
If we were to represent the Epistle to the Romans as a bas relief, there would be two passages which would have to stand in the highest relief—the end of the third chapter, in which St. Paul speaks of that free justification which is given to all men on the equal basis of faith in Christ the propitiation for their sins; and this eighth chapter, in which he speaks of the triumph which belongs to the life of the justified, lived in the power of Christ's Spirit.