Natural
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
Duration:
1min
• 1 min. read • grade level: 9
That which is according to nature.
2. κατὰφύσιν, “according to nature.” The Israelites are called the natural branches of the olive tree which God planted on earth (Rom. 11:21,2421For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. (Romans 11:21)
24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? (Romans 11:24)). φυσικός, “that which belongs to nature” (Rom. 1:26-2726For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. (Romans 1:26‑27); 2 Peter 2:1212But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; (2 Peter 2:12); Jude 1010But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. (Jude 10)).