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the blood of bulls and goats and the
ashes OF a heifer, sprinkling the un-
clean, sanctitieth to the purifying of
the flesh" Secondly,in a moral sense
to purify he quotes Romans Is: 16
That the offering of the Gentiles
might be acceptable, being sanctitied
by the Holy Spiriti. e..the. sanctify-
ing influence of the Holy Spirit on
the hearts of the Gentiles. Thirdly,
to make sacred or holy. Since, in the
Jewish ritual, this was one great OBJ.
Ject OF publication e. g., Matt. 23:l7.
"4 fools and blind for whether is
greater the gold, or the temple that
salctlfieth the gold" Fourth, he
gives Haglasmos in the n. T. sancti-
tication, purity of heart and life, ho-
illness. Romans GIG. Servants of
Righteousness into holiness" V. %.
"Ye have your fruit unto holiness"
First Thess. IL. mot uncleanness,
but unto holiness" Such is this
grest authors testimony. The Eng
lislman's Greek Concordance gives
them tnus: HagiaZo, hallOw, holy,
sanctify; hagiasmos, holiness, sane
tification." Bloomfield, in his Cheek
testament, acknowledged to be a
work of the first merit, says, ON Ro-
mans 1916, ell pneumati hagio which
are meant to suggest the means
whereby they have been made and
are preserved, pure; namely: The
sanctifying influence of the Holy
Spirit on their hearts, and not by ex-
ternal rites" Liddeli and Scott,
''hagios; devoted to the Gods,
First, in goo0 sense, sacred, holy"
Wall quotes Origin, Gregory, Nazin-
zen, and st. Austin in support of
this view. OF the latter he quotes,
"Ience Cornelius, and they that
were with him, when they appeared
to be already sanctitied invisibly by
the Holy Ghost coming on :hem," &c.
Notice now, St. Paul i'll his epistles
Sentt to the christians of any place,
addresses them. "To the holy per-
SONS" .'To such as have been sane
titled" He addresses the Corinthi-
ans, 'unto the church of God which
is at CUrinth, to them that are sane
tilted in Christ Jesus" DR.. Clark
comments on Romans 1916. "The
Holy Spirit was the libamen poured
upon the sacrifice, by which it was
sanctiticd and rendered acceptable to
God Buck, III his Theological Die
tiOnaTy, says: Sanctitication chang
eth our heart and life before Him as
our Father" Watson says "sancti-
tication in this world must be COM
piete; the whole man must be sancti-
lied. All sin must utterly be abolish
ed or the soul can never be admitted
into the glorificd presence of God"
DR.. Raymond, OF Garrett Biblical
Institute, in his recent work on sys-
tematic theology, vol. 2, p. 3S4, speak
ing of CENTRE sauctitication' SAYS !:
Ii is a state of grace which may be
sought, obtained and enjoyed. First,
The scriptures recognize such state
Of grace, which they speak of as a
state of maturity. Second, the scrip
lures call that state of grace perfect
love- and as love is the fulfilling of
The law, perfection, if anywhere,
must be found in the aflectional ma
ture. The heart must be capable of
a pure and supreme love toward God.
Third, we are then assured of the
actual existence of such Il state of
grace; we know where to find that
grace, or, perhaps more properly, in
what ii chiefly consists Notice,
first, we have shown that the word
among the Hebrews meant to cleanse,
to purify. Secondly, we have shown
that among the Greeks il meant, "to
purify. to make holy Thirdly, we
have shown that the best scholars
and critics so understand it now
We close this proposition by quoting
from the cguditc and worldwide
popular Greek grammar OF the n. T.,
by "Wincr." 1T is high time that
some voice should be raised against
the invcterate empiricism of exposi-
tors, and that some effort should be
made to cmamcipate the writers of
the new testament from the bondage
of a perverted philologv." judge
that no one will! deny these comnen-
tators, photographers and critics,
the first place in the critical literary
world. "lIOliness to the Lord is
the inscription on our Methodist
banner. The effect Of this class of
preaching is seen by the following
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