10388. This is the Lord's teaching in John,
Unless a person has been born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. John 3:5.
'Water' in the spiritual sense is the truth of faith derived from the Word, 'spirit' is a life in keeping with it, and 'being born of these' is being regenerated.
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