Spirit of adoption spirit of bondage

It is your surety of eternal salvation. Actually, it repeats the name Father twice, once in Aramaic and once in the Greek. Here, though, Paul assures us that God does not view us as His slaves or even just good servants. Earnest, for it takes the form of "crying. Our text speaks of that Spirit as the Spirit of adoption. Or is it neither one nor the other?

He will not own it. You know you do. Besides which, I believe that there is a voice unheard of the outward ear, which drops in silence on the spirit of man, and lets him know that he has, indeed, passed from death unto life.