sttll persist tn going e.bout to eete.blieh their (of. eh. H. 4._1rAo6-ror ?7jr Xl"ltrrh,rro,; Eph. own rightoouenoes inetend of submitting I. 7,_ -rlw ,r"A.0U'TOV -rijr x&ptTOf aln-oii. O,..rmii- themselves to the righteoUBDeS! of God. He ne.t1on of the three subetantiv811 is l!llgg1;Bted shuts them up for the present in their by t~e. ,cal befllre <To~!a.r; but St. Paul's A,m9ela, to the end the.t e.t l11ngth, e.fter preva1hng naage ma.y rather oommend the their long judgment, and stirred up by the de~ndence of <Tolf>/a.r e.nd -yv~,,,,, or 1r"A.06-rou, fulnese of the Gentiles coming in, they may e.s m the Authorized Venion). How Dll- feel their neecl, and e.ccept salvation. To/,, searohe.b~e e.re hi, judgmenta, and hi, ways 'ff'dv-r,u ill the concluding clause seems to put_ finding (rather, t!aei111J) out! (cf. Pa. mean generally e.11 mankind, Jews e.s well xxvi. 6; Job IL 10 ; :n. 7). :ror who hath as Geutiles; and fva: -rol,, 1rd.v-ra:s h,Ef/<1"/1 known tll.e mind of the Lord t or who hath (e.e <Tw91J<TE-ra:, was understood above with been his oonnsellor 1 (lea. :d 13, qnoted respect to "e.ll Israel," as snggeeted by a.ccnre.tely from the LXX.). Or who hath first the coutext and the general drift of the given to him, and it sball be reeompensed chapter) God's embre.cing e.11 re.ces of man- unto him a.gain t (cf. Job ili 11, where kind a.t last in the arms of his mercy by the Hebrew has (Revised V£:rsion), ''Who calling them into the Church. Thus the bath first given unto me, that I should re- latter expression is not in itself adducible pay him?" The LXX. (Job xli. 2) g:ive3 an in support of the doctrine of universalism. entirely different sense of the pa.saa.ge; and Certainly the prospect of a universal triumph it would thus appear, as may be seen al.Bo of the gospel before the end rises here before in other <'.a.see, that St. Paul. though nsnally the apostle in prophetic vision; e.nd it me.y quoting more or less freely from the LX.X., be that it carries with it to hie mind further was familiar a.lee with the Hebrew text, glories of eternal salvation for all, ea.sting and exercised judgment in hie citations. their rays backward over all past a.gee, so Ver. 36.-For of him, and through him, 88 to inspire an unbounded hope. Such e. and unto him, are all tbmg,1. The view hope, which seems elsewhere intimated (cf. advanced by some, that we have here an I Cor. xv. 24-29; Eph. i. 9, 10, 20-23; intimation of the doctrine of ihe Holy Col. i. 15-21), would justify the glowing Trinity, cannot fairly be maintained. But rhapsody of admiration e.nd thanksgiving it is strikingly significant of the apostle's that follows more fully than if we supposed view of the essential Deity of Christ, tha.t the apostle to contemplate still the eternal in 1 Cor. viii. 6 and Col i. 16, I 7, similar perdition of the mnltitudes who in ell the la.ngua,,,<>e is applied te him. In the fim of e.ges have not ou earth found mercy. these texts it is ea.id of the Father, •{ all -rtl Vere. 33-35.-0 the depth of the riches wdv-ra, e.nd of the "Lord Jesus Christ," S,' both of the wisdom and knowledge (or, of the o~ ..-a w&..rra ; and in the second. of "the Son riches and wisdom and knowledge) of God! of the Father's love," b, 11.h-'I' l,n-,.,.0.,, Tt1 By -yvw<T•"'• is sib"Ilified God's omniscience ; TCl"TO:, and ... a WV'Ttl s.' a:ln-ou iral fil a:ln-dr by <Tolf>la.,, his wisdom in ordering events; (,n-urra:i, and also -rtl rd....-a: b a:ln-ri a,,,.,;. by 'ff'Aoo-rov, if it be to.ken 88 a co-ordinate .,..,.,,1e•v. To him be the glory for enr. substantive, the abundance of his good.Dess Amen.
HOMILETICS. Ver. 15.-" Life from the dead." The new wine of Christianity burst the old. worn skin of Judaism. Israelites were indeed the first preachers of the faith, and its first adherents were largely recruited from the syn11gogues. Still, as years passed on, ii became apparent that, as a whole, the favoured nation wM unprepared for a religion so spiritual, so universal, M Christianity. The rejection of the gospel by the Jews was the occasion of the progress of the gospel in the larger, the Gentile world. And the apostle, himself a Hebrew, yet the apostle of the <hntiles, recognizing this fact as included in the plans of Providence, yet looked beyond the present into the futuN, and so.w, in the predicted ingathcring of the sons of Abraham, the destined revivru. of true religion throughout tho world. When an event so reme.rksble, so unlikely, yet so clearly foretold, shn.11 occur, its effect shall be prodigious; it shall be noth.ing less thnn "lifo from the dend." These words contain e. principle truly and emphatically Christinn. Let them be rognrded in this light. J. 'l'IIE FOUNDA'l'lON 01-' TIIIS PRINCIPLE IS LAID IN THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION 1)11' OUR SAVIOUR. l?rom the throno of his glory Christ describes himself as the Being who •• wns dead, and is alive ngain," He must needs suffer, and tast.l death for every mt\U ; but it waa not possible that he should beholden of it. His rlsiug wu more than a sie,-a THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS. [OR. n. 1-88,