Q.-1. Is there any difference between" carnally " and " of the flesh " in Rom. 8:5, 6, 13, &c.?
W. J. F.
2. What is " fleshy " in 2 Cor. 3:3? AL.
A. 1, 2. It is the same word and sense in Horn. viii., the mind of that flesh which is enmity to God, and came into man's moral constitution through Adam's sin. But " fleshy " means the different fact of the physical material, consisting of flesh, in contrast with stone; and the critics prefer it in Rom. 7:14 to the received reading which only differs by one letter. So do the oldest copies in 1 Cor. 3:1, though they give the form " fleshly" or " carnal " in ver 3. In Heb. 7:16 they prefer "fleshy" or at anyrate the Greek form for the material. Yet in Rom. 15:27 the word for " fleshly " or " carnal," is read; so that this would seem capable of both applications, whereas the other is confined to the material sense.
*Third Lecture.