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19. ἀποδιορίζοντες, making distinction, saying “stand aside, touch me not: I am holier than thou.” In the Introd. p. xlv I suggest that this again is an allusion to the Assumption of Moses. The false teachers would claim possession of special knowledge in divine things.
ψυχικοί, sensual. 1Co 2:14 a ψυχικὸς ἄνθρωπος does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, 1Co 15:44 σπείρεται σῶμα ψυχικόν, ἐγείρεται σῶμα πνευματικόν. Jam 3:15 speaks of a wisdom which is ἐπίγειος, ψυχική, δαιμονιώδης. There it is definitely the opposite of πνευματικός.
πνεῦμα μὴ ἔχοντες, though doubtless they claimed to possess it in a special degree.