loss of the antithesis between κατὰ σάρκα, and κατὰ πνεῦμα. Other commentators, like Meyer and De Wette, regard πνεῦμα as antithetic to σάρξ taken in its restricted signification, to denote the sensuous nature only. It is Christ’s rational human nature, they assert, as distinguished from his physical human nature: this higher spiritual side of Christ’s humanity was filled with the Holy Spirit. But the mere possession of reason in distinction from sense, even though reason be sanctified and