clause is merely subordinate and explanatory, and does not express the main idea of the context. This con- struction also overlooks the obvious antithesis between the we of the 11th verse and the yow of this clause. 2. Others supply simply the verb ave. ‘In whom you also are.’ This is better, but it is liable to the latter objection just mentioned. 38. Others make yow the nominative to the verb were sealed in the following clause.—‘ In whom you also (having heard, &c.) were sealed.’ But this requires the clauses to be broken by a parenthesis. It supposes also the construction to be irregular, for the words i whom also are repeated before the verb ye were sealed. The passage according to this construction would read, ‘In whom ye also—, in whom also ye were sealed.’ Besides, the sealing is not the first benefit the Gentile Christians received. They were first brought into union with Christ and made partakers of his inheritance and then sealed. 4. It is therefore more consistent not only with the drift of the whole passage, and with the relation be- tween this verse and verse 11, but also with the con- struction of this and the following verse to supply the word ἐκληρώθητε, have obtained an inheritance. Every thing is thus natural. In v. 11, the apostle says, ‘In
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whom we have obtained an inheritance ; ‘In whom ye also have obtained an inheritance.’ Both Jews and Gentiles are by the mediation of Christ, and in union with him, brought to be partakers of the benefits of that plan of mercy which God had purposed in himself, and which he has now revealed for the
salvation of men.