It is instructive, to study the treatment of our Lord's words (John iii. 5) by a commentator so little mystical as Professor Westcott. St. John, then, might point at this as another hint of regeneration in the parable of creation, viewed spiritually. The world of vegetation in Genesis is divided into two classes. (1) _Herbs_ צֵשֶׂב = all grasses and plants which "_yield seed_." (2) _Trees_ מְּרִי צֵץ = shrubs and arboreous plants which have their seed enclosed in their fruit (Gen. i. 11, 12) Such are the plants of God's planting in His garden. Of each the "seed" from which he sprung, and which he will reproduce unless he becomes barren and blighted, "is in him." "He cannot sin." It is against the basis of his new nature. Of the new creation as of the old, the law is--"his seed is in him." The rest of this verse is interpreted in the Discourse upon 1 John v. 4. SECTION VI. GREEK. LATIN. Εν τουτω φανερα εστιν In hoc manifesti sunt τα τεκνα του Θεου και filii Dei et filii diaboli. τα τεκνα του διαβολου. Omnis qui non est Πας ὁ μη ποιων δικαιοσυνην iustus non est ex Deo, ουκ εστιν εκ του et qui non diligit Θεου, και ὁ μη αγαπων fratrem suum; quoniam τον αδελφον αυτου· ὁτι hæc est adnuntiatio αυτη εστιν ἡ αγγελια quam audistis ab ἡν ηκουσατε απ' αρχης, initio, ut diligamus alterutrum, ἱνα αγαπωμεν αλληλους· non sicut ου καθως Καιν εκ του Cain ex maligno erat, πονηρου ἡν και εσφαξε et occidit fratrem suum. τον αδελφον αυτου· και Et propter quid occidit χαριν τινος εσφαξεν eum? quoniam opera αυτον; ὁτι τα εργα eius maligna erant, αυτου πονηρα ἡν, τα fratris autem eius δε του αδελφου αυτου iusta. Nolite mirari δικαια. μη θαυμαζετε, fratres si odit nos αδελφοι, ει μισει ὑμας ὁ mundus. Nos scimus κοσμος. Ἡμεις οιδαμεν quoniam translati ὁτι μεταβεβηκαμεν εκ sumus de morte in του θανατου εις την vitam, quoniam diligimus ζωην, ὁτι αγαπωμεν fratres: qui non τους αδελφους· ὁ μη diligit, manet in morte. αγαπων μενει. εν τω Omnis qui odit fratrem θανατω· πας ὁ μισων suum homicida est, et τον αδελφον αυτου scitis quoniam omnis ανθρωποκτονος εστιν· και homicida non habet οιδατε ὁτι πας ανθρωποκτονος vitam æternam in se ουκ εχει ζωην manentem. In hoc αιωνιον εν αυτω μενουσαν. cognovimus caritatem Εν τουτω εγνωκαμεν Dei, quoniam ille pro την αγαπην, ὁτι nobis animam suam εκεινος ὑπερ ἡμων την posuit: et nos debemus ψυχην αυτου εθηκε· και pro fratribus animas