the rest were all warriors, men who had done valiant deeds in battle (I Chron. 11: 11-47).

It is this feature that is carried over into the present time: "Endure hardness . . . . . if we

endure we shall reign . . . . . I have fought a good fight . . . . . henceforth a crown."

Before concluding this aspect of our subject let us look at the armour. We have

already observed the evident connection in Eph. 6: and 4: between the exhortation to

"put on" the armour, and the statement of fact that we have "put on" the new man.

"The truth that is in Jesus" is--"your having put off . . . . . and your having put on"

(Eph. 4: 21-24).  Apothesthai and endusasthai are in the middle voice, whereas

analabete, "take unto you", and analabontes, "taking", of Eph. 6: 16 are in the active.

The taking up of the armour is the experimental and active entry into all that Christ has

been made unto us by God. This "truth in Jesus" is the girdle of our loins, Christ Himself

(without the slightest admixture of the principles of law or merit) is our breastplate of

righteousness, and so throughout the list.

In Rom. 13: 12-14 the apostle makes mention of armour, and it will help us to see

what is said:--

Here in view of approaching morning, the sleeper is called upon to awake, put off his

night attire, and don the armour of light--the only fitting attire for the saint passing

through this world. Once again may we insist that the apostle does not say one single

word about fighting, but instead he speaks about walking, and just as in Eph. 4: he

speaks of the deceitful lusts of the old man, so here he makes no mention of Satan, but

immediately indicates the foe by enumerating six "lusts of the flesh". Then more fully to

clinch what we have previously seen in Eph. 6:, instead of returning to the subject of

the armour and referring to its several items, he proceeds at once to the true meaning and

says: "Put on the armour of light . . . . . put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no

provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."

Where Eph. 6: enumerates the parts of the armour, Rom. 13: points to the

appropriation of all that Christ is to the believer; and where Eph. 6: particularizes the

spiritual foes, Rom. 13: points out their only vantage ground with the believer, "the

making provision for the lusts of the flesh". This, as we have already seen, is in entire

harmony with what we may learn from a comparison of Eph. 4: and 6:

In I Thess. 5: 5-11 we have another reference to armour, another reference to night

and day, another placing of drunkenness over against armour:--