THE TRIPARTITE NATURE OF MAN. 



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Now, on p. 190, the Lecturer says the spirit is dormant in the 

 unconverted ; and makes Jude say that it is non-existent. Whereas 

 on p. 191, it is dead. Being dormant, being non-existent and being 

 dead, are states as far apart as entity from nonentity, life from 

 death. Perversion is not suppression, and it is the former sin 

 accomplishes. In a literal sense it is no more dead than the psuche 

 which individualizes it, just as in itself it is no more holy than the 

 psuche (2 Cor. vii, 1). We have still a spirit which can be disturbed 

 {2 Cor. ii, 3), refreshed (2 Cor. vii, 13), cleansed (2 Cor. vii, 1), kept 

 pure (1 Cor. vii, 34), rescued from destruction (1 Cor. v, 5), and 

 requires sanctification as well as the body and the soul (1 Thess. 

 V, 23). 



How is it, then, that Jude can say that the soulish or unconverted 

 man has not a spirit or pneuma ? The key is in Paul's list of the 

 Christian possessions in 2 Cor. vi, 6, where we find " a holy spirit " 

 mentioned. This is the new nature imparted by the Holy Spirit 

 and is emphatically holy, for we are told that what is born of God 

 " cannot sin." 



Nor can I agree with the Lecturer in connecting the passions, etc., 

 solely with the soul, for in John we find our Lord's spirit troubled, 

 and in Matthew His soul troubled, whilst in the Magnificat Mary 

 said, " My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced 

 in God my Saviour." 



Referring to p. 194, it appears to me that hy psuche Paul emphasizes 

 Adam as material, earthly, created perishable, the first link in a 

 chain of living souls with bodies doomed to perish. By pneuma 

 zoopoioun he emphasizes what Christ had become, partly in conse- 

 quence of His heavenly origin (verse 47), partly in consequence of 

 what this supra-natural had rendered possible — the creative act 

 of God by which the last Adam rose superior to death and was 

 constituted with a heavenly and imperishable body, thus acquiring 

 power to be the first link in a chain of a new humanity endowed 

 by Him with immortal life in bodies heavenly and imperishable as 

 His own. The spiritual body is but the organ of the regenerated 

 psuche, that individualization of the regenerated pneuma — a living 

 soul in the New Creation all-conquering and eternal. 



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