Fleshly
Fleshly
1. , ‘belonging to the flesh:’ applied to the fallen condition of man: to his wisdom 2Co 1:12; and to his lusts. 1Pe 2:11. The same word is translated CARNAL. In Rom 7:14 it is ‘fleshly,’ morally (the state of a new-born soul under bondage, doing the things he hates); in Rom 15:27 it is ‘fleshly’ physically ; and in some passages it is the fleshly or carnal condition of the Christian as led of the flesh. The word occurs in 1Co 3:1; 1Co 3:3-4; 1Co 9:11; 2Co 10:4; Heb 7:16. In most of these passages some MSS read , ‘fleshy.’
2. , ‘flesh:’ in Rom 8:7; Col 2:18 it is ‘mind of the flesh;’ and in Heb 9:10 it is ‘ordinances of flesh.’ This Greek word is commonly translated ‘flesh,’ q. v.