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D. R. Dungan's Hermeneutics: A Text-Book: Chapter II. The import of this language can not be mistaken. The reason they were not saved was they had not turned to God, and the reason they had not turned, was, they did not understand with the heart; the reason they did not understand with the heart, was that grossness prevented them from considering the claims of Christ in any proper way. "How can ye believe, which receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God, ye seek not?" (John v. 44). Here, even, the desire for the praise of men is presented as a barrier sufficient to prevent faith. [19] "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. But because I say the truth, ye believe me not" (John viii. 44, 45). It is plain that this was not the original condition of this people. Once they might have accepted the truth and been made free by it, but they had turned their hearts over to the control of the wicked one tilt they had become like him. With this evil heart in them, it would have been more agreeable for them to have beard a falsehood than a truth, and it would have been easier for them to receive the falsehood. "And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth and bring to naught by the manifestation of his coming; even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that are perishing; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (II Thess. ii. 8-12). These persons were perishing because they believed a lie, and not the truth. This they did because they did not receive the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. And because they would not have the truth, God turned them over to the falsehoods which they preferred. "But and if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that are perishing: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them" (II. Cor. iv. 3, 4). [20] The god of this world, in this text, was the riches, honors and pleasures of this life. These things become a god to man through the devotion which he chooses to render. And in taro for all this service, the worshiper has his mind blinded to all that is good and pure. In this way the Gentile world fell away from all that was pure and holy. Once they knew God, but they neglected his warship, and so went astray, step by step, till they reached the lowest possible spiritual http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/ddungan/hatb/HATB02.HTM (5 of 13) [30/08/2003 11:32:01 p.m.]
D. R. Dungan's Hermeneutics: A Text-Book: Chapter II. condition (Rom. i. 18-32). Paul thinks it possible for those who have once known the truth, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, to fall so far away that they can not be renewed again to repentance (Heb. vi. 1-6). (4.) Not only may men fall into evil thoughts and evil lives, and thereby destroy their disposition to receive the truth, and even go so far that they can not turn back again, but every degree in depravity renders it that much more difficult to accept of the pure, thoughts of the word of God.--There are carnalminded church members, who are too gross in their hearts to know the height and breadth, and length and depth, of the riches and beauty and glory of the revelation which God has made to us. This proposition might be regarded as having been established already. Still it is proper to refer to a text or two--first to make the point still clearer; and second, to get the meaning of these passages clearly before the mind of the reader: "Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him, and he can riot know them, because they are spiritually judged" (I. Cor. ii. 14). This text has been a battle-ground, and as we enter it we announce our utter want of sympathy for either [21] party. The first and most common view of the passage is, that until a man is converted and enlightened by the Holy Spirit, he can not understand the word of God that this natural man is the unconverted man. The second view is much more reasonable: The natural man, is the man in a state of nature, and, therefore, without the revelation which God has given. And the reason that he can not understand the things of God is that he has not had a teacher, but with a teacher, he could know these things quite well enough. I do not accept the interpretation of either of these parties, for the following reasons: (a) Paul was not speaking to, nor of, men in a state of nature having never received revelation, or to whom it had never been offered. (b) He was not speaking to, nor of unconverted men, in antithesis to converted men. (c) The spiritual judgment is the antithesis, and the carnal judgment is that which naturally opposes it. Hence the conclusion is, that the word rendered "natural" would be better rendered carnal. (d) The reason that this natural man did not receive them, was not because he had never heard of them, but because they were foolishness to him. They could not be foolishness to a man who never heard of them. (e) The word psuchikos, here rendered natural, is better rendered carnal. It occurs five times in the New Testament: I. Cor. ii. 14; xv. 44, 46; James iii. 35; Jude 19. In the Corinthian letter, it is rendered in the Common Version by the word natural, but in the other occurrences, by the word sensual. The latter is http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/ddungan/hatb/HATB02.HTM (6 of 13) [30/08/2003 11:32:01 p.m.]
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