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of the faith, but such vast themes are entirely beyond the range of the
present article. (See Colossians1). To all such the believer died with
Christ, and the life that he now lives `with' Him, is for ever free from the
bondage of all such rudimentary religion that can only operate in the realm
of the flesh, but can never intrude into that newness of life into which the
believer even now enters by faith in glad anticipation of the day of reality,
when He Who is our Life shall be manifested, and we shall be manifested with
Him in glory.
It may be well to draw the attention of all readers to the following
facts:
(1)
These wondrous `reckonings', `crucified with', `dead with',
`buried with', `quickened with', `raised with' and `seated with'
are found only in Paul's epistles to the churches, and are
entirely absent from the Epistle to the Hebrews.
(2)
The preposition sun `with' enters so little into any doctrine
that the apostle taught the Hebrews, that it does not occur as a
separate preposition once.
(3)
In combination sun occurs in twelve forms, but not one
approximates in any way to the blessed teaching we are now
considering. In order that every reader may have the fullest
liberty of research we give these twelve combinations of sun
before passing on.
`To
suffer affliction with'
sugkakoucheo
(Heb. 11:25).
`To
be mixed with'
sugkerannumi
(4:2).
`To
be heirs with'*
sugkleronomos
(11:9).
`To
be touched with'
sumpatheo
(4:15;10:34).
`To
bring together' (profit)
sumphero
(12:10).
`To
meet together'
sunantao
(7:1,10).
`To
perish together'
sunapollumi
(11:31).
`To
be bound with'
sundeo
(13:3).
`To
perceive together' (conscience)
suneidesis
(9:9,14).
`To
bear witness with'
sunepimartureo
(2:4).
`To
end together'
sunteleia
(9:26).
`To
end together' (complete)
sunteleo
(8:8).
*
The only word of this list that is found also in Ephesians. It has a
perfectly separate association however, which we will consider in its right
place.
In this list we have positive evidence that the apostle freely used
compounds of sun, yet the absence of the very key words of Ephesians is
eloquent testimony to the fact that the apostle was not dealing with the same
calling. For completeness sake, therefore, we must give another list, namely
of those compounds of sun, that are peculiar to the calling of Ephesians.
`To
sit together'
sugkathizo
(Eph. 2:6).
`To
be heirs with'#
sugkleronomos
(3.6).
`To
have in common with'
sugkoinoneo
(5:11).
`To
quicken together'
suzoopoieo
(2:5).
`To
be compacted together'
sumbibazo
(4:16).
`To
be partakers together'
summetochos
(3:6).
`To
be citizens together'
sumpolites
(2:19).
`To
be joined together'
sunarmologeo
(2:21; 4:16).