With this hope swelling their hearts, the apostle's readers once more triumphantly join in the refrain: TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.
[47] Exod. xix. 3-6; Deut. iv. 20, 21; 1 Kings viii. 51, 53; Ps. lxxviii. 71, etc. With the above comp. Gen. xv. 8; Numb. xviii. 20; Jos. xiii. 33; Ps. xvi. 5.
[48] Ch. iv. 30. The "seal" of 2 Tim. ii. 19 has both the first and third of these meanings.
[49] Rom. iv. 11; 1 Cor. ix. 2; John iii. 33, vi. 27.
[50] Matt. xxvii. 66; Rev. v. 1, etc.
[51] Ch. ii. 11; comp. Rom. i. 28, 29; Gal. v, 5, 6; Phil. iii. 2, 3.
[52] Comp. Rom. viii. 9-11; 2 Cor. v. 1-5.
[53] Acts i. 4, ii. 33, 39, xiii. 32, xxvi. 6; Rom. iv. 13-20; Gal. iii. 14-29.
[54] See Rom. x. 14-18; Gal. iii. 2, 5; Col. i. 6, 23; 1 Thess. ii. 13; 2 Tim. i. 13.
[55] 1 Tim. ii. 1-7, iv. 10; Tit. ii. 11.
[56] 1 Thess. v. 9; 2 Thess. ii. 14; Heb. x. 39.
[57] Comp. Chapter VIII.
[58] For the former usage see, along with ver. 7 and ch. ii. 5, 8; Rom. iii, 24, x. 9; Titus iii. 5; 2 Tim. i. 9; Col. i. 14; Heb. ix. 15; for the latter, ch. iv. 30; Luke xxi. 28; Rom. v. 9, 10, viii. 23; Phil. ii. 12; 1 Thess. v. 8, 9; 2 Tim. ii. 10, iv. 18. It may be doubted whether St Paul ever uses these terms to denote present salvation or redemption without the final issue being also in his thoughts. Perhaps he would have called the redemption of ver. 7, in contrast with that of Rom. viii. 23, "the redemption of the spirit."
[59] Hosea xiii. 14; Isa. xxv. 8.
[60] The same incoherence occurs in Gal. iv. 5-7: "that _we_ might receive the adoption of sons. And because _ye_ are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into _our_ hearts."