plicitly asserted. And it is not only asserted, but it is de- clared to be the purpose of God to make it apparent, and to ibrce all men to acknowledge it. He so dispenses his grace as to make men see with regard to others, and to acknow- ledge w^ith regard to themselves, that the fact that they are in Christ, or true Christians, is due to him and not to them- selves. The effects of this union, as here stated, are, that Christ is of God (dTro ©eoi)), as the author, made unto us, 1. Wisdom. Christ is the true wisdom. He is the Logos, the Revealer, in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead, and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. No man knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son shall reveal him, John 1, 18. Union with him, therefore, makes the believer truly wise. It secures the knowledge of God, whose glory is revealed in the face of Christ, and whom to know is eternal life. All true religious knowledge is de- rived from Christ, and it is only those who submit to his teaching who are wise unto salvation.
2. The second effect of union with Christ, is righteousness and sanctification (SiKatocn;!^ re koL ayiaa-fios) ', these are inti- mately united (re Kat) as different aspects of the same. thing. Mighteousness is that which satisfies the demands of the law as a rule of justification ; sanctification^ or holiness, is that which satisfies the law as a rule of duty. Christ is both to us. He is our righteousness, because by his obedience and death he has fully satisfied the demands of justice, so that we are "the righteousness of God in him," 2 Cor. 5, 21. When we stand before the judgment-seat of God, Christ is our righteous- ness. He answers for us ; he presents his own infinite merit as the all-sufficient reason for our justification. Rom. 3, 21. 22. 5, 19. Phil. 3, 9. He is also our sanctification. His Spirit dwells in all his people as the Spirit of holiness, so that they are transformed into his likeness from glory to glory. Wher- ever the Spirit dwells there are the fruits of the Spirit. Acts 26, 18. Rom. 8, 9. 10. Gal. 5, 22. Eph. 2, 5. 10.
3. The third effect is redemption^ i. e. deliverance from evil. This term sometimes includes all the benefits received from Christ. When he is called our Redeemer he is present- ed as our deliverer from guilt, from hell, from sin, from the power of Satan, from the grave. But when redemption is distinguished from justification and sanctification, it refers to the final deliverance from evil, The " day of redemption " is the day when the work of Christ shall be consummated in the