Kinder Gottes - Adoption und Leben im Geist
Einleitung
Kontext
V.14 treibt Dich der Geist Gottes?
V.15 Keinen Geist der Knechtschaft sondern einen Geist der Kindschaft!
V.16 Sein Geist gibt unserem Geist Zeugnis das wir seine Kinder sind.
V.17 Verheißung: Nicht nur Kinder, auch Erben!
Abschluss
Spirit of adoption (πνεῦμα υἱοθεσίας). The Spirit of God, producing the condition of adoption. Ὑιοθεσία adoption, is from υἱός son, and θέσις a setting or placing: the placing one in the position of a son. Mr. Merivale, illustrating Paul’s acquaintance with Roman law, says: “The process of legal adoption by which the chosen heir became entitled not only to the reversion of the property but to the civil status, to the burdens as well as the rights of the adopter—became, as it were, his other self, one with him … this too is a Roman principle, peculiar at this time to the Romans, unknown, I believe, to the Greeks, unknown, to all appearance, to the Jews, as it certainly is not found in the legislation of Moses, nor mentioned anywhere as a usage among the children of the covenant. We have but a faint conception of the force with which such an illustration would speak to one familiar with the Roman practice; how it would serve to impress upon him the assurance that the adopted son of God becomes, in a peculiar and intimate sense, one with the heavenly Father” (“Conversion of the Roman Empire”).