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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 3:6 - 3:6
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That which is born, etc. - A great universal proposition; “That which is begotten carries within itself the nature of that which begat it” [Olshausen].
flesh - Not the mere material body, but all that comes into the world by birth, the entire man; yet not humanity simply, but in its corrupted, depraved condition, in complete subjection to the law of the fall (Rom 8:1-9). So that though a man “could enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born,” he would be no nearer this “new birth” than before (Job 14:4; Psa 51:5).
is spirit - “partakes of and possesses His spiritual nature.”