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William Barclay · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Barclay says: No man was ever more conscious of the tension in human nature than Paul. As the solider in Studdert Kennedy’s poem said; I’m a man and a man’s a mixture Right down from his very birth; For part of him comes from heaven, And part of him comes from earth. For Paul it was essential that Christian freedom and liberty should mean not freedom to indulge this lower side of human nature, but freedom to walk in the life of the Spirit. Related Resource: Galatians 5:16 What is the Flesh? Remember for much more in depth notes click Galatians 5:16 Commentary Kenneth
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Barclay says: In this word akatharsia, then, there are three ideas. i. It is the quality of that which is soiled and dirty. . . . ii. In this impurity there is a certain repulsive quality. It awakens disgust and loathing in any decent person who looks at it. . . . iii. In this word there remains the idea of that which separates a man from God. (Galatians 5 Commentary)
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Barclay says: . . . aselgeia indicates a love of sin so reckless and so audacious that a man has ceased to care what God or man thinks of his actions. A man, he says, may be akathartos, impure, unclean, and hide his sin, for public opinion and public decency still have some hold upon him; but a man does not become aselgēs (the adjective) until he shocks public decency. As Lightfoot sees it, the essence of aselgeia is that it has come to such a stage of sinning that it makes no attempt whatever to hide or cloak its sin; it is sin lost to shame. The Agony of Deceit edited by Michael Horton - When Jimmy Swaggart defied the orders of the Assemblies of God to refrain from preaching for one year, he assured the public that he was free of moral defect, for, he said, Oral Roberts had cast out the demons from his body over the phone. Oral Roberts confirmed Swaggart’s report, insisting he saw the demons with their claws deeply embedded in Swaggart’s flesh. Now that the rascals were gone, Swaggart and Roberts asserted, Swaggart could get on with preparing the way for Christ’s return. Evidently, personal responsibility for sin can be dismissed by blaming it on an external force. Yet Flip Wilson’s famous quip, “The devil made me do it” is hardly comedy when we’re talking about the biblical view of sin. For these metaphysical evangelists, even personal sins can be attributed to the bad god, since he is, after all, sovereign over this earthly realm as the good god is relatively in charge of the spiritual domain. Here again, then, is the echo of the Gnostics of old. When that heresy was revived toward the end of the medieval period, Calvin said, “They made the devil almost the equal of God.” In this way, the problem of sin is replaced with the problem of Satan. It is facing Satan, not my own sin and rebelliousness, that becomes the great task of the Christian life. I’m not the problem—the Devil is! (See Deceitfulness of Sin) Galatians 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, Phillips Paraphrase - worship of false gods, witchcraft, hatred, quarrelling, jealousy, bad temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit,