Rom 8:15 | Abbott | STEP | The spirit of bondage; the spirit of a slave. The meaning is, that the renewed man is not received as a slave, to live in terror of threatened punishment, as he did under the law, but as an adopted child, so that he may approach God as his benefactor, and call him Father.— Abba; the word meaning father in the language then used by the Jews.

Romans 8:15

The spirit of bondage; the spirit of a slave. The meaning is, that the renewed man is not received as a slave, to live in terror of threatened punishment, as he did under the law, but as an adopted child, so that he may approach God as his benefactor, and call him Father.—Abba; the word meaning father in the language then used by the Jews.