the American Standard edition it is spelled with a capital S, and in this matter a's in many other matters, the American Revised Version is to be preferred to the Author ized Version and the English Revised Ver sion. , “Does Paul in Gal 2 : 20 , viz., -I have been crucified with Christ'; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself up for me,' speak of an actually realized condition in his life, or'only his ideal?” He speaks o f “ an actually realized condi tion in his life.” He does not say, “ This is what I aim to be and do,” but “what I am and do.” Paul says, “ I have been crucified with Chrjst; and it is no longer Tthatdive, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself up for me,” i. e., that Christ really so lived His life in him and it was no longer he that was living,- but Christ living in him. As to the being crucified with Christ, he speaks about that as a thing that had already been accomplished, Where it was accomplished was on the Cross o f Calvary. When Christ was nailed to the cross we were crucified with Him. That is the real standing of every believer. It is not for us to crucify self, as so many put it, but to realize that we hatfe been crucified in the cruci fixion o f Christ, and to live according to that fact, i. e., to regard self as a cursed thing nailed to the cross, and no longer try to live the self-life, but just let Jesus Christ live out His life through uS. “Is it wrong for a Christian ever to tell a funny story; or sing a clean comic song.” Telling funny stories is a perilous prac-
“How could the writers of the ^Sunday School lesson in the January issue of The King’s Business in their notes on the les son for January 23 , 1916 , make the mistake they do regarding Romans 8 : 13 ? They say, ‘It is strange that both the Authorized and Revised Version here spell Spirit with a small s ’ This is a mistake, for the word Spirit is spelled with a capital letter instead of a small in both these versions.’’ The, mistake is not with the writers of the lessons, but with the one who asks the question. It is true that vn many editions o f the Authorized Version the word Spirit is printed with a capital letter as our cor respondent says, hut this is simply because these editions are>incorrect. In th e ‘orig inal writing o f Romans 8:13 in , the 1611 version o f the Bible (commonly called the Authorized Version) Spirit was spelled with a small s, and is so spelled in all cor rect reproductions o f that edition. But a great many reproductions are inexact. They have made many changes from that original version. In editions subsequent to -1611 changes were made from time to time, “nobody knows upon- whose authority,” and the average Bible today is not by any means an exact reproduction o f the orig inal so-called Authorized Version. And this is one o f many illustrations o f the inexactness o f most editions o f the Author ized Version. Doubtless our correspondent had one o f these editions and very naturally supposed that the mistake was with our les son writers, but it was not. Most o f these changes that are made in later editions are changes that are warranted by good schol arship, as in the change in this .case, never theless, our writers were exact- in stating that the Authorized Version spelled Spirit with a small s, as does also the English Revised Version in the correct editions. In
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