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Separate themselves (ἀποδιορίζοντες)
Only here in New Testament. Themselves is unnecessary. Better, as Rev., make separations; i.e., cause divisions in the church. The verb is compounded with ἀπό, away; διά, through; ὅρος, a boundary line. Of those who draw a line through the church and set off one part from another.
Sensual (ψυχικοί)
See on Mar 12:30. As ψυχή denotes life in the distinctness of individual existence, “the centre of the personal being, the I of each individual,” so this adjective derived from it denotes what pertains to man as man, the natural personality as distinguished from the renewed man. So 1Co 2:14; 1Co 15:44 :. The rendering sensual, here and Jam 3:15, is inferential: sensual because natural and unrenewed In contrast with this is
The spirit
The higher spiritual life. So the adjective πνευματικός, spiritual, is everywhere in the New Testament opposed to ψυχικός, natural. See 1Co 15:44, 1Co 15:46.