SCRIPTURE SEARCHINGS In the New Testament. PART I. CHAPTER I. INVESTIGATION OF THE SCRIPTURAL POSITION OF THE WORDS. I. Spirit (avεuμa—П¬). II. Soul (vx-). III., IV. Mind (νοῦς — φρὴν). V. Desires and affections (émiovuía). VI. Flesh (σápë). VII. Body (owμa). VIII. Heart (kapdía). THERE is so little known with regard to the nature of spirit, soul, mind, desires and affections, that all that Man can do is to receive in humility what the Scripture connects with them, and to freely admit in this present world his own hopeless ignorance. Having said thus much, I would quote the words of Bishop Butler with regard to the flesh, or the body: So also with regard to our power of moving, or directing motion by will and choice: upon the destruction of a limb, this active power remains, as it evidently seems, unlessened; so as that the living being, who has suffered this loss, would be capable of moving as before, if it had another limb to move with. It can walk by the help of an artificial leg, just as it can make use of a pole or a lever, to reach towards itself and to move things beyond the length and the power of its natural arm: and this last it does in the same manner as it reaches and moves, with its natural arm, things nearer and of less weight. Nor is there so much as any appearance of our limbs being endued with a power of moving or directing themselves; though they are adapted, like the several parts of a machine, to be the instruments of motion to each other; and some parts of the same limb, to be instruments of motion to other parts of it.-Bp. BUTLER, Analogy, pt. i. c. 1. Nature to all things fixed the limits fit, And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. POPE, Essays on Criticism, 52 to 66. |