- Part 2 Introduction

All of this will be powerfully supported and the subject perhaps somewhat further elucidated if we will seek now to penetrate a little deeper into the inmost nature of the work of the Holy Spirit which Paul calls here a "leading," by attending more closely to the term which he has chosen to designate it when he calls it by this name. This term, as those skilled in such things tell us, is one which throws emphasis on three matters: on the extraneousness of the influence under which the movement suggested takes place;
on the completeness of the control which this influence exerts over the action of the subject led; and
on the pathway over which the resultant progress is made.

Let us glance at each of these matters in turn.