D.A. Carson, Research Professor from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, gives a very helpful analysis of freedom in his commentary on John. He writes:
"True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us" (350).
How true, and what a clever, pithy statement. It should be disclosed that Carson may have borrowed this material from St. Augustine. No footnotes were given, but my friend seemed to recall reading a similar phrase from the fourth century theologian.
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