The Church Epistles (Romans to Thessalonians): Their Importance, Order, Inter-Relation, Structure, Scope, and Interpretation (2nd Edition 1905)

The Church Epistles (Romans to Thessalonians): Their Importance, Order, Inter-Relation, Structure, Scope, and Interpretation (2nd Edition 1905)

Year: 1905

“The reader must remember that there is absolutely no authority whatever as to whether the word “spirit” should begin with a capital letter or not. There is nothing in the Greek to show it, and translators differ among themselves. The humblest Spirit-taught reader is able to judge as well as the greatest of Greek scholars. The point must be decided wholly by the scope of the passage; and the scope can be found only from the structure. The structure, therefore, at once revolutionizes the common interpretation of this chapter; and leads us into the true meaning of what the Holy Spirit is saying to the churches. It will therefore be necessary for us to set this chapter out somewhat fully, in order to establish our case. The four great members of which this chapter is com posed are so large as to suggest at once that they must have each its own separate and important structure, giving in turn its own key to the scope of the various sections. It will therefore be necessary for us to set this chapter out somewhat fully, in order to establish our case. The four great members of which this chapter is composed are so large as to suggest at once that they must have each its own separate and