[104] Rom. xiii 1 to 9; Ephes. v and vi; Col. iii 18 to 25; Titus ii 1 to 10; 1 Peter ii and iii.
[105] ‘You are a priesthood of kingly lineage’ 1 Peter ii 9.
[106] ‘as poor, but we bestow wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely possess all things’ 2 Cor. vi 10.
[107] ‘where the spirit of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed’ 2 Cor. iii 17.
[108] ‘every one who commits sin is the slave of sin’ John viii 34.
[109] ‘if I am destitute of love, I am nothing’ 1 Cor. xiii 2.
[110] It is ἱκανότης not αὐτάρκεια (2 Cor. iii 5 and 6), the latter word being used in a different sense, for which see § [480], note 135.
[111] The term (ἁμαρτία, peccatum) is Stoic.
[112] Lightfoot, Philippians, p. 296. This view has become familiar through Milton’s treatment of the Fall of man in Paradise Lost. There the prohibition of the forbidden fruit is nothing but a test of readiness to obey. This point of view seems quite foreign to St Paul, who always speaks of sin as sinful in itself, not in consequence of the Creator’s will.
[113] Eph. v 12 (R. V.).