We are dead and risen. Even many Christians who use the words constantly do not really enter into the meaning of this language, and for the obvious and sufficient reason-they are not living in the truth of it practically; they are too habitually mixed up with the world to understand such absolute separation from it. It is not that they are dull of understanding in the things and interests of nature. But their speech and their ways [betray] them, proving how far they are from intelligence of the Scripture itself. They substitute mysticism for the truth. [14]