“But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.”
At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. — the historical pattern (Ishmael mocking Isaac, Genesis 21:9) is rehearsed in the present: the law-oriented Jews ('sarka' — according to flesh) persecute the Spirit-born believers, a paradigm of conflict between flesh and Spirit.
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