Liberty as in 2 Corinthians 3:17, frequently translated “…where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty.” This is a Myth because the word Liberty is a holdover from the early English translation from the Latin. Liberty, translated from the Latin Libertas, means a release to do anything, which is like freedom. But the Greek word eleutheria translated freedom to specifically refer to freedom from something—from sin, then from bondage, both physical slavery and spiritual bondage. The New Thayer Greek-English Lexicon has “…freedom from the corrupt desires, so that we do by the free impulse of the soul what the will of God requires.”
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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