receive: and therefore immediately adds, Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch? As if he had said, "Do not confer with flesh and blood touching these things, with men void of spiritual discernment, the eyes of whose understanding God hath not opened, lest they and you perish together." In the next verse he removes the two grand objections, with which these wise fools meet us at every turn, "These things are too grievous to be borne," or, "They are too high to be attained:" saying, The disciple is not above his Master: therefore, if I have suffered, be content to tread in my steps. And doubt ye not then, but I will fulfil my word: for every one that is perfect, shall be as his Master. But his Master was free from all sinful tempers. So therefore is his disciple, even every real Christian.
25. Every one of these can say with St. Paul, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: words that manifestly describe a deliverance from inward, as well as from outward sin. This is expressed both negatively, I live not: my evil nature, the body of sin is destroyed: and positively, Christ liveth in me, and therefore all that is holy, and just, and good. Indeed both these, Christ liveth in me, and I live not, are inseparably connected. For what communion hath light with darkness, or Christ with Belial?
