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THE REV. H. J. R. MAESTOX, M.A., OX 



and correct use of psychological terms show St. Paul to have been 

 specially qualified to describe a psychological experience. 



The Rev. A. Graham Barton thought of the words of Victor Hugo, 

 "the road to Damascus is one of the highroads of humanity/' The 

 Lecturer referred to St. Paul's treatment of man's nature as 

 tripartite, consisting of spirit, soul, and body. Many psychologists 

 did not believe in the tripartite nature of man, but considered that 

 man was dual. Mr. Marston assumed the tripartite division of man's 

 nature, whereas this was in dispute. 



Lieut. -Colon el Alyes considered that the character of the Apostle 

 Paul could very well take care of itself, the only difficulty relating 

 to him being the nature of the " thorn in the flesh." 



As to the nature of the " soul " in the " spirit and soul and 

 body n of I Thessalonians v, 23, there was much dishonest teaching, 

 notably on the part of the nineteenth-century revisions of the Old 

 Testament, in their following the original translators, who were 

 naturally prejudiced by early Romish training. 



In Genesis i and ii, besides the man of ii, 7, being a " living soul," 

 the inferior animate creation is five times called "living soul," in 

 the Hebrew, the Greek Septuagint, and the Latin Vulgate. In 

 Genesis vii, 21-23, man is again linked with that creation as to his 

 "breath of the spirit of lives.'' Whatever was the result of the 

 God-breathing in man's case, he would seem, as regards the 

 substance of his spirit, as well as of his body, to be the same as the 

 lower animals ; albeit, it must be remembered, a distinct creation. 

 Man's likeness to his Maker appears to be mental and bodily, not 

 moral and spiritual, as Genesis iii reveals. This is also taught by 

 both Moses and Paul, who give the male likeness as being nearer 

 the Divine than is the female. 



Dead bodies of men are, certainly ten, possibly eleven, times,, 

 called " souls " in the Hebrew Old Testament. 



Man's nature seems to be revealed as twofold before regeneration, 

 and what may be called threefold after, two spirits acting on the 

 same body, and producing two diverse soul-feelings. The Apostle's 

 remark, in I Thessalonians v, seems to mean that, through orderly 

 and holy walk of life, the spirit overcoming the "flesh," the new 

 " soul " thus generated may overcome the old ; and that what was 

 irksome at first may. through conflict, become instinctive. 



Like other branches of theology, our psychology has been based 



