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Using the Revised Standard Version, the authors offer commentary on key versus, phrases, and words to help readers gain a proper understanding of Scripture.

and resurrection through his baptism (Ro 6:3–11). By making the resurrection a purely inner, spiritual experience they evaded the thought of the resurrection of the body, which was offensive to Greek thinking (Acts 17:32. The Greek depreciated the body and thought of it as the prison of the soul, from which the immortal soul was released by death). Their teaching was therefore a demonic denial of the goodness of God’s creation (1 Ti 4:1–5), a blasphemous attack on the Creator. (1 Ti 1:20) 2:19 Foundation.
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