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I think there is mischief in trying too much to balance; a judgment is thereby formed more by what is said than by Scripture. All know well enough that I have no kind of difficulty in speaking of an Old Testament saint as alive spiritually in his soul. My contention is against the idea of the communication of life (as a substantive quantity) in new birth. I believe the thought entirely misleading and hindering souls from seeing that the One who bore the judgment of death is the One who is a quickening Spirit towards man. Whatever there was of God in man before,

^[p. 216] Christ came that the sheep might have life. Before that they were not free of the judgment of death. I do not think I ever connected born again exactly with John 5. It seems to me more the question of the Son of God in testimony and its effects; the one that has heard His voice shall live. In chapter 6 we have the sustenance of life — the living bread.