Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 9.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 41.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.vii.iii Pg 6.3
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 201.3
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 206.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xviii Pg 9.1
Anf-03 v.viii.xlv Pg 3
Eph. iv. 22–24.
(they maintain) that by here also making a distinction between the two substances, and applying the old one to the flesh and the new one to the spirit, he ascribes to the old man—that is to say, the flesh—a permanent corruption. Now, if you follow the order of the substances, the soul cannot be the new man because it comes the later of the two; nor can the flesh be the old man because it is the former. For what fraction of time was it that intervened between the creative hand of God and His afflatus? I will venture to say, that even if the soul was a good deal prior to the flesh, by the very circumstance that the soul had to wait to be itself completed, it made the other7581 7581 The flesh.
really the former. For everything which gives the finishing stroke and perfection to a work, although it is subsequent in its mere order, yet has the priority in its effect. Much more is that prior, without which preceding things could have no existence. If the flesh be the old man, when did it become so? From the beginning? But Adam was wholly a new man, and of that new man there could be no part an old man. And from that time, ever since the blessing which was pronounced upon man’s generation,7582 7582
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 4
VERSE (24) - Eph 6:11 Job 29:14 Isa 52:1; 59:17 Ro 13:12,14 1Co 15:53 Ga 3:27
