[9] The best commentators connect the expression, 'by faith in me,'
not with the word 'sanctified,' but with the whole clause, 'that
by faith in me they may receive.' This will, however, in no way
affect the application to the word sanctified. Thus read, the
text tells us that the remission of sin, and the inheritance,
and the sanctification which qualifies for the inheritance, are
all received by faith.

[10] See Note E.

Nineteenth Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

Holiness and Resurrection.

'The Son of God, who was born of the seed of David _according to
the flesh_, who was declared to be the Son of God with power,
_according to the Spirit_ of holiness, by the resurrection of the
dead.'--Rom. i. 4.

These words speak of a twofold birth of Christ. According to the flesh,
He was born of the seed of David. According to the Spirit, He was the
first begotten from the dead. As He was a Son of David in virtue of His
birth through the flesh, so He was declared to be the Son of God with
power, in virtue of His resurrection-birth through the Spirit of
holiness. As the life He received through His first birth was a life in
and after the flesh with its weakness, so the new life He received in
the resurrection was a life in the power of the Spirit of holiness.

The expression, the Spirit of holiness, is a peculiar one. It is not the
ordinary word for God's Holiness that is here used as in Heb. xii. 10,
describing holiness in the abstract as the attribute of an object, but
another word (also used in 2 Cor. vii. 1 and 1 Thess. iii. 13)
expressing the habit of holiness in its action--practical holiness or
sanctity.[11] Paul used this word, because He wished to emphasize the
thought, that Christ's resurrection was distinctly the result of that
life of holiness and self-sanctifying which had culminated in His death.
It was the spirit of the life of holiness which he had lived, in the
power of which He was raised again. He teaches us that that life and
death of self-sanctification, in which alone our sanctification stands,
was the root and ground of His resurrection, and of its declaration that
He was the Son of God with power, the first begotten from the dead. The
resurrection was the fruit which that Life of Holiness bore.

And so the Life of Holiness becomes the property of all who are
partakers of the resurrection. The Resurrection Life and the Spirit of
Holiness