Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 6:20
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1 Corinthians6:20
20 For ye are bought with a price : therefore glorifie God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods .
What price this is that is here mentioned, Peter tells us both Negatively and Positively, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. Forasmuch as ye know that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers: But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb, without blemish and without spot. So he argueth with them against this sin from their Redemption, it being suitable to reason, that those who are redeemed out of any slavery or captivity, should be the servants of him who redeemed them, not of those Tyrants from whom they are redeemed, such are our lusts and corruptions, from which we are redeemed, as well as from that curse and wrath, which is the consequent of them.
Therefore (saith the Apostle) you who are redeemed with a price, and with such a price are bound to glorifie God, as by speaking well of his Name, so by obeying his Will, Matt. 5.16. And this you are bound to do, not with your bodies or spirits only, but in or with your bodies and spirits also, that is, with your whole man; for both of them are Gods, by a manifold right, not that of Creation and Providence only, but that of Redemption also: with which exhortation the Apostle finisheth this discourse, and cometh to give them an answer to some questions about which they had wrote unto him.
Marginal references: Chap. 7.23. Heb. 9.12.
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