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…The meaning is simply the contrast between the general ideas of " earthly fathers," and " heavenly father." For if you make the latter clause, " Father of spirits" moan Creator of our souls, then, by antithesis, the former should be read, fathers of our bodies ; but this neither the apostle's scope permits, nor the word Sarx, which never means, in bis language, our bodies as opposed to our souls;- but our natural, as opposed to our gracious condition of soul.…
Robert Dabney — Systematic Theology, OF LECTURES IN THEOLOGY. 219
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