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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on John 6:63
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
John 6:63 · Douay-Rheims
“It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.”
On this verse:
“the flesh profiteth nothing--Much of His discourse was about "flesh"; but flesh as such, mere flesh, could profit nothing, much less impart that life which the Holy Spirit alone communicates to the soul. the words that I speak . . . are spirit and . . . life--The whole burden of the discourse is "spirit," not mere flesh, and "life" in its highest, not its lowest sense, and the words I have employed are to be interpreted solely in that sense.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.