Galatians 5:24

they that are Christ's They who belong to Christ, who are His by redemption or perhaps as in Galatians 3:29, who are part of Christ. The same expression occ. 1 Corinthians 15:23. The R.V. reads -They that are of Christ Jesus", which has the support of the earlier MSS.

have crucified The aorist maybe rendered strictly -crucified"; in which case the reference will be to their conversion and baptism. But in many passages of the N. T. this tense must be represented in translation by the English perfectas its true equivalent. Crucifixion is a lingering mode of death; and though the reception of Baptism was an overt and initial act by which the deeds of the body were mortified, yet such mortification is continued daily through the whole of the believer's earthly life. It only ceases when he is -delivered from the burden of the flesh". Compare the prayer for the newly baptized in the Office for Baptism: -that he being dead unto sin … may crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of sin".

the affections and lusts -its passions and appetites". See Trench, N. T. Syn. p. 311, foll.