dence in God. To tell him that his preaching "was not to be depended upon, was in his mind the same as to say that God was not to be believed ; for he knew that he was the infallible organ of God in all his teaching. 1 John 5, 10.
19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, (even) by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
My preaching is true, for Christ is true. There is no con- tradiction, no yea and nay, in him, therefore there is no con- tradiction in my doctrine. There was no room in Paul's mind for doubt as to his preaching being a trustworthy exhibition of the person and work of Christ, and therefore if Christ be one and the same, i. e. self-consistent truth, so was his doc- trine or teaching. With such self-evidencing light and irre- sistible comdction does the Spirit attend his communications to the human mind. Even in ordinary religious experience, the testimony of the Spirit becomes the testimony of conscious- ness. Much more was this the case when plenary inspiration was combined T\ith the sanctifying power of the truth. The Soti of God, Jesus Christ ; that is, Christ, who is the Son of God, the same in nature with the eternal Father, and because he is the Son, and, therefore, eternally and immutably true, was not yea and nay. There was nothing in him contradicto- ry or untrustworthy. This Christ loas preached in Corinth by Paul, Silvanus and Timotheus. These persons are men- tioned because the apostle probably refers to his first visit to Corinth when they were his companions. Acts 18, 5. His appeal is to the experience of his readers. They had found Christ to be the way, the truth and the life. He had been made unto them wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and re- demption. 1 Cor. 1, 32. By Christ here the apostle does not mean the doctrine of Christ. He does not intend to as- sert simply that there was perfect consistency in his own preaching, and that it agreed with the preaching of his associ- ates. The truth asserted is that Christ, the Son of God, had not been manifested among them, or experienced by them to be unsatisfpng or uncertain, but in him was yea. That is, he was simple truth. In him, i. e. in Christ, was truth. He proved himself to be all that was affirmed of him. He was and continued to be (yeyovcv) all that they had been led to