Yet the Spirit is given unequally: spiritual and carnal believers in 1 Corinthians 3
Yet that Spirit is given unequally, not to all by the same measure. So although every believer has God’s Spirit at least in some degree, some are still called spiritual over against others called carnal, as in 1 Corinthians 3.
Paul says: "And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to carnal: as to infants in Christ." He does not call them brothers unless they are believers. Yet those he addresses there he calls carnal — still crude and weak in mind, who have not yet received Christ’s Spirit in the measure needed to bear and grasp the more hidden, harder mysteries of the Christian religion. So, as he says, they are as it were infants in Christ. By "the spiritual" he means those the Holy Spirit has raised into a more perfect state.
Latin
XII. Verum Spiritus ille inaequaliter datur, nec omnibus eadem mensura. Unde est quod, tametsi omnes et singuli fideles Spiritum Dei habent, aliquo saltem gradu, quidam tamen eorum spirituales vocantur, opposite ad alios, qui dicuntur carnales, ut videre est, 1. Cor. 3. Et Ego fratres, inquit Paulus, non potui loqui vobis quasi spiritualibus, sed quasi carnalibus: tanquam parvulis in Christo. Nam fratres suos Paulus non vocat, nisi fideles. Et tamen quos ibi compellat, dicit esse carnales, id est, rudes adhuc et mente imbecilla, quique ea mensura Spiritum Christi adhuc non acceperunt, ut ferre et capere possint religionis Christianae mysteria magis abstrusa atque difficilia: ideoque, ut ipse dicit, in Christo quasi infantes. Per spirituales autem intelligit illos quos Spiritus sanctus in statum perfectiorem evexit.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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