350 ROMANS 16: 1—27.

the one most generally approved. « To him that is able to establish you to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory.' In this case the relative to whom, in v. 27, is pleonastic. Others explain the passage thus, 'To the only vrise God, made known through Jesus Christ, to whom (i. e. Christ) be glory for ever.' The former construction appears the more natural. As Paul often calls the gospel the " wisdom of God" in contrast with the wisdom of men, he here, when speaking of the plan of redemption as the product of the divine Mind, and intended for all nations, addresses his praises to its author as the only wise God, as that Being whose wisdom is so wonderfully displayed in the gospel, and ia all his other works, that he alone can be considered truly wise.