3. Under the elements of the world. Elements may either mean, literally, outward and bodily things, or, metaphorically, rudiments. I prefer the latter interpretation. But why does he say that those things which had a spiritual signification were of the world ? We did not, he says, enjoy the truth in a simple form, but involved in earthly figures; and consequently, what was outward must have been “of the world,” though there was concealed under it a heavenly mystery. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-4" class="com-number"
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source-manifest/cal— Calvin's Commentaries (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological