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THE FIFTH GOSPEL 
 
 OR 
 
 The Gospel According to Pau 
 
 REVISED VERSION 
 
 BY CHARLES ROADS, D. D. 
 
 Author of " Christ Enthroned in the Industrial World " 
 AND " Little Children in the Church ok Christ " 
 
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 CINCINNATI : CURTS & JENNINGS 
 NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS 
 
 1897 
 
COPYRIGHT 
 
 BY CURTS & JENNINGS 
 
 1897. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Paui^'s Preface to His Gospel, 23 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 The Gi,ory of the Gospel of Christ, 28 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 Genealogy of the Christ 31 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 Paul's Conversion and Call, 37 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 The Apostles of Christ, 43 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Pauline Echoes of the Sermon on the Mount, 50 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 Christ Jesus in Word and Deed, 56 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Christ, Through Ambassador Paul, Speaking to 
 All like Nicodemus, 64 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Redemption Through Christ, 68 
 
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4 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Pauwne ParaIvI^Ei* to John XIV, 71 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 The Last Supper and the Crucifixion, 76 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 The Resurrection, 81 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 Ascension and Exai^tation of Jesus, ...... 85 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 Intercession in Heaven, . . . c . 87 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 Christ Coming Again, 94 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 Judgment and the End 99 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 T^HE mass of facts concerning Christ's life 
 -■■ which Paul has contributed to the gen- 
 eral gospel will surprise every Bible student 
 who sees it compiled for the first time. In 
 historical comprehensiveness and value it 
 compares well with any of the four others, and 
 fully justifies his claim to have a fifth Gospel. 
 Chronologically, indeed, much of it was writ- 
 ten first, and all of it completed long before 
 John's. 
 
 We have here simply set it all in order after 
 the example of Luke, dealing with the sub- 
 stance of apostolic preaching and belief as he 
 knew it. Or, in his w^ords by the Revised Ver- 
 sion, we "have taken in hand to draw up a 
 narrative concerning those matters" which 
 were the basis of Paul's preaching and teach- 
 ing. Paul's claim that he had received his 
 gospel independently and directly from God 
 is not to be lightly set aside; that it came to 
 
6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 him not from man, neither was he taught it, 
 neither did he go up to Jerusalem to consult 
 with the other apostles, but the gospel he 
 preached was intrusted to him through revela- 
 tion of Jesus Christ; to him, because he also 
 was an apostle. 
 
 What, then, is Paul's distinctive gospel? 
 The Church, even to our day, certainly has 
 failed fully to understand this repeated and 
 pathetically persistent claim of Paul that 
 Christ had committed to him a fresh gospel. 
 Probably because its extent and unique value 
 is not appreciated. It is scattered in precious 
 fragments through many letters and dis- 
 courses after the manner of the material Luke 
 was inspired to rewrite, or, like the petals of a 
 rarely beautiful rose, torn apart. Only Paul 
 himself could gather them, and construct that 
 magnificent flower, his Rose of Sharon. Our 
 attempt will necessarily appear artificial, but 
 there is no other way now to exhibit its com- 
 pleteness. 
 
 We have therefore collated all data that are 
 really historical, from the epistles and Paul's 
 
INTR on UCTION. 
 
 discourses reported in the Acts of the Apostles, 
 into chronological order, and we confidently 
 present it as truly the fifth Gospel. It must be 
 so regarded by all who give consideration to 
 Paul's words concerning it, and to his place in 
 apostolic history. How astonishing that we 
 labor to prove that there are four Gospels, and 
 only four, in the face of this claim of Paul! 
 Are his utterances to be ignored wholly? We 
 have lost a valuable part of the general gospel 
 by so doing, and now should let harmonies of 
 Christ's life add the fifth column, and then 
 Paul and John will be seen to go back beyond 
 the others into the eternity past, and Paul 
 alone forward into the farthest future, after 
 the ascension of Christ. Harmonies must be 
 wider and longer to present the complete mis- 
 sion of the Christ until his redemptive work is 
 finished. 
 
 Paul's memorabilia of Christ are, in single 
 items, glorious to his responsive soul and to 
 his masterful intellect, and sublime in suggest- 
 iveness. Just as all profoundly spiritual Chris- 
 tians to-day, and especially preachers, find it 
 
8 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 difficult to study any book of the Bible as a 
 whole, or even a complete paragraph, but are 
 thrown off into meditations and homilies by a 
 single inspiring verse, so Paul could not 
 calmly proceed in orderly biographical tread 
 through that wonderful Life. He halts at each 
 item, is thrilled by its sweetness, and starts off 
 in comment and application exceedingly rich 
 and helpful. We follow him and lose the par- 
 ticular fact about Christ, which forms his text, 
 or rather have never made the effort to think 
 of all his texts together. For, while thus med- 
 itating, Paul sees another gospel truth, and 
 again takes to inspired rambling through 
 Christ's green pastures and by his still waters. 
 Thus it has come to pass that in Paul's 
 letters all these texts and discourses, personal 
 meditations, homilies, and applications, facts 
 and comments, are printed heterogeneously 
 together as regarded from an historical stand- 
 point. It is like inserting an inspired homi- 
 letic commentary on Mark or Luke into the 
 body of these Gospels without distinction of 
 
INTRODUCTION. 9 
 
 style or type, and without systematic arrange- 
 ment, either doctrinal or logical. 
 
 Our present little book on "The Gospel of 
 Paul" is an attempt to isolate Paul's texts, 
 which are historical data about Christ, so as 
 to present a parallel to the four Gospels, with 
 no thought of even suggesting that Paul's 
 discourses upon these facts are of any lower or 
 less really divine inspiration, or that our com- 
 pilation is anything more than a help to richer 
 Bible study. Our material is from the thirteen 
 Pauline epistles generally so accepted, and 
 here the sweep of facts given is very compre- 
 hensive, though so interwoven with doctrinal 
 statement and argument that facts could not 
 be taken out whole in every case without a 
 little of comment hanging on. We preferred 
 to take a little more than a bare recital of a 
 fact, in order that we might be true to the real 
 meaning of Paul. Otherwise the statement 
 would have been obscure, the dovetailing into 
 the rest difficult, or, worse still, a change of 
 words from Paul's utterance would have been 
 
lO INTRODUCTION. 
 
 necessary to form a readable paragraph. But 
 this change of words we could not tolerate, 
 and therefore not a word of any text, as it ap- 
 pears in the Revised Version, has been altered, 
 except in a few cases to insert the unmistak- 
 able pronoun or noun before the verb, where 
 the passage selected was very long and in- 
 volved. 
 
 Paul's discourses in the Acts of the Apos- 
 tles are manifestly so accurately reported by 
 Luke that it is entirely proper to add all their 
 material as part of the Pauline Gospel. The 
 theological treatise called the Epistle to the 
 Hebrews is also used in our work for several 
 reasons. To prove the completeness of Paul's 
 Gospel it is not needed, for it adds probably 
 no fact not elsewhere stated or implied; but 
 since the revisers, whose text is followed, still 
 retain the title, 'The Epistle of Paul to the 
 Hebrews" (though with American dissent), 
 since many great Biblical authorities continue 
 also either to attribute it to Paul, or, what is 
 the same for our present purpose, they recog- 
 nize it as thoroughly Pauline in content and 
 
INTRO D UCTION. 1 1 
 
 spirit, though probably written by Luke, 
 ApoUos, or Barnabas, it is an integral part of 
 the fifth Gospel. If actually written by Paul, 
 and there are great names in Biblical scholar- 
 ship for this view, who see in the really wide 
 divergence of style only what occurs in chang- 
 ing from familiar letter to set essay or oration 
 by the same author, it is, of course, proper 
 to use it. And if written from the substance 
 of Pauline preaching by a friend, it is no less 
 his Gospel. 
 
 Compare now with the other Gospels. Like 
 John, Paul begins with Christ in the eternal 
 past. The first chapter of Hebrews may well 
 stand beside the first chapter of John. Both 
 have a style of lofty sublimity, and both pre- 
 sent the glory of the only begotten Son of 
 God, which he had with the Father before the 
 world was. In both he is God and Creator, 
 though sent into the world to speak for God 
 to men. With the fifth Gospel set in order, we 
 construct for the first time a column parallel- 
 ing in gospel harmony the Logos chapter of 
 John. Going now to the other end of the 
 
12 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Divine-human life, we find Paul's Gospel far 
 excelling all the others in the revelation of the 
 resurrected Christ. He gives us a few new 
 facts of the earthly post-resurrection appear- 
 ances of Jesus. He has a large account of the 
 Redeemer's ascension and triumphant en- 
 trance into heaven. 
 
 But it is of Christ's intercession that Paul 
 treats most fully. The Gospel of the Priest- 
 hood of Jesus, or of his intercessory office, is 
 the Book of Hebrews. Just as wonderfully 
 as John presents the Messiah as the Word of 
 God, in the higher mystery of his prophetic 
 office, and as Matthew shows him to us as the 
 long-expected King, so Paul completes his 
 Trinity of saving relations in that remarkable 
 story of Jesus, the Priestly Intercessor running 
 through the stately chapters of Hebrews. The 
 history is complete without using Hebrews, 
 but there it is dwelt upon in great detail and 
 picturesqueness. Take also the Second Com- 
 ing of Christ for comparison of Paul with the 
 four. This wonderful event in the history of 
 the Savior is predicted in a few scattered 
 
INTRODUCTION. 1 3 
 
 verses in the first three Gospels, more fully in 
 the last discourses in John, and by the angelic 
 promise in Luke's first chapter in Acts. But 
 in Paul's Gospel it is a rich and glorious chap- 
 ter. As we have here compiled it, what a 
 comfort it is to those who love his appearing! 
 what an inspiring hope for the saints of God! 
 Who will not again, and more fully than ever, 
 study this next coming? 
 
 There is also a notable chapter on the Last 
 Judgment, and its awards unto eternal things. 
 But on all these topics it is impossible, without 
 much repeating of passages which treat of 
 several subjects together, to exhibit all that 
 Paul said. It might have been wiser to have 
 repeated under each topic, but upon mature 
 reflection we have decided to use each verse 
 only once. 
 
 Of the life and ministry of Jesus, which 
 forms the main body of the other Gospels, Paul 
 does not furnish detailed account. He gives 
 us only a few sayings of Christ by direct quo- 
 tation, but speaks always in Christ's name, and 
 very closely echoes a large part of Christ's 
 
14 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 discourses as found in the other Gospels. Our 
 readers will find the chapter on Christ's words 
 and deeds very rich and satisfactory. 
 
 The most prominent characteristic of the 
 fifth Gospel is the personal factor. This is not 
 wholly absent from the Synoptists, but appears 
 only in obscure allusions, and even in John it 
 is a very modest reference to ''the disciple 
 whom Jesus loved." In Paul, it is repeatedly 
 what he himself calls boasting, but by compul- 
 sion, because his real apostleship was not ac- 
 knowledged nor his Gospel recognized. Is it 
 a proof of the uselessness of such pushing of 
 personal claims, even if done in Paul's spirit, 
 that his Gospel is yet unappreciated, and four 
 only are persistently talked about? Or is it 
 not rather another of many demonstrations 
 that "much light is yet to break forth from the 
 blessed Book?" 
 
 Let us examine, however, the real spirit in 
 all Paul's mention of himself, and it will be 
 seen to be sincerely humble and Christlike. 
 There is not a trace of his old Pharisaism, nor 
 any tinge of self-righteousness. As compared 
 
INTRODUCTION. 1 5 
 
 with all other apostles, he claims for the honor 
 of Christ's cause that he has equal authority 
 from Christ with any of them. He was doubt- 
 less Christ's choice, though he never says so, 
 for the vacant apostleship which Peter was in 
 such a hurry to fill. And Christ alone had the 
 right to fill it, not by the roundabout way of 
 the lot, but by direct call. Or, possibly, Paul's 
 was the thirteenth, the extra apostleship be- 
 yond the Twelve to Israel, overflowing to the 
 Gentiles. His personal insistence is almost 
 wholly to establish his appointment by the 
 Lord to the salvation of the Gentile world. 
 
 Yet while his Gospel is more specifically to 
 the Gentiles, it is not really more so than the 
 others. Many well-known passages in Mat- 
 thew, besides the final commission, extend the 
 Savior's mission to all the world; Mark, ac- 
 cording to an ancient tradition, wrote for the 
 Romans, and wrote what Peter preached; and. 
 John's Gospel came after the destruction of 
 Jerusalem and the scattering of the Jewish 
 nation, so that it bears no trace of special 
 application to the Jews. Indeed, the much- 
 
1 6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 discussed division into Judaistic and Gentile 
 notions of the gospel never existed in the cir- 
 cle of the apostles after Peter opened the 
 world-wide door to Cornelius, except possibly 
 as a weak prejudice recognized by those who 
 still had not wholly freed themselves as sinful 
 and contrary to Christ. 
 
 How is Luke's Gospel related to Paul? Re- 
 member that Luke, in his preface, claims that 
 he wrote what eyewitnesses told him about 
 the Lord, and those the eyewitnesses who 
 were with the Lord from the first. Paul de- 
 clared, to be sure, that he also saw the Lord, 
 but it was after his ascension, and he can not 
 be included in the number of those who gave 
 Luke the materials for his writing. Note also 
 that Luke claims for himself to have had 
 knowledge of these things from the beginning, 
 "having traced the course of these things ac- 
 curately from the first." The tradition which 
 makes him one of the Seventy is very plaus- 
 ible. The hasty supposition from Luke's com- 
 panionship with Paul that he derived his ma- 
 terials from Paul is opposed by his preface. 
 
I NT ROD UCTION. 1 7 
 
 Paul's Gospel is not in Luke, though it would 
 be easy to show that Luke had the same love 
 for the Gentiles, which, however, Matthew 
 also had, to say nothing of Mark and John. 
 Luke limited his Gospel to the ascension of 
 Jesus. (See Acts i, i.) 
 
 Why did not Paul mention the Lord's mir- 
 acle-working among the facts he gives about 
 him? Probably because no one ever called it 
 in question. He does specifically claim mir- 
 acle-working for the apostles and disciples, 
 and even as one of the regular ministries of the 
 Spirit through them. He makes strongest 
 possible assertion of himself as a worker of 
 miracles, and all this carries with it the pre- 
 sumption that Jesus was a worker of signs 
 and wonders. And Paul is more concerned 
 for spiritual results in life and character, and 
 glories most in presenting Jesus as perfect 
 Savior. 
 
 But why did not Paul set in order, as Luke 
 did, his Gospel of Jesus the Christ? We may 
 not satisfactorily know. But the Holy Spirit 
 who guided him loves variety, and in this case 
 
1 8 INT ROD UCTION. 
 
 scattered the jewels into many fields, instead 
 of setting them into a brilliant coronet. The 
 four Gospels are each unique. Matthew's is 
 topical, even at the expense of being unchro- 
 nological. He was the tax-gatherer at Caper- 
 naum, keeping accounts under particular heads 
 in his primitive bookkeeping, and he brought 
 this commercial ledger style into his Gospel. 
 He sets the facts under heads of genealogy, 
 early life, forerunner, baptism, temptation, the 
 kingdom proclamation, miracles, counsels to 
 the missionaries, etc., adding frequently many 
 things from later periods for topical reasons. 
 Mark is a rapid story-teller, and gives us al- 
 most bare events, with few words and no strict 
 regard for topical or logical order. Luke an- 
 nounces himself the careful biographer, and 
 is chronologically the most accurate. The 
 spiritually doctrinal is John's, and the prac- 
 tically evangelistic is Paul's. Thus there are 
 five ways of telling the sweet, old story of 
 Jesus and his love. 
 
 The suggestion that Paul wrote his facts 
 in scattered epistles, because he thought the 
 
INTROD UCTION. 1 9 
 
 time of gospel preaching was short, and the 
 second advent of Christ close at hand, is not 
 tenable, for Paul wrote first and by the Spirit. 
 He did practically adopt the attitude of con- 
 stant expectancy of the Lord's coming, which 
 Christ enjoins, but he explicitly disavows in 
 2 Thessalonians having intended to teach that 
 he knew Christ would immediately appear. 
 There is no indication anywhere that he estab- 
 lished Churches or planned any of his work 
 by temporary methods. 
 
 Our headings of chapters aim at simplicity 
 and a general statement of the actual contents 
 of the verses. These chapters might be sub- 
 divided, and many more of Paul's doctrinal 
 statements be added as also legitimately his 
 revelation of Christ. But the more strictly 
 historical plan, centering in Christ's personal 
 mission, will commend itself as a helpful first 
 efifort to set forth in Paul's own words, un- 
 altered, the facts he knew about Jesus the 
 Christ. Do not these abundantly vindicate 
 his almost pathetic plea to us, as well as to 
 the primitive Church, to be affectionately 
 
20 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 regarded as also an apostle of Jesus Christ 
 and the bearer of the fifth Gospel? 
 
 The surpassing value for Christian apolo- 
 getics of the comprehensiveness of Paul's facts 
 about Jesus has long been recognized. 
 Against the destructive criticism which would 
 resolve the supernatural of the Gospels into 
 myths, but which acknowledges the genuine- 
 ness of Paul's letters to the Romans, Corinth- 
 ians, and one or more others, the array of his- 
 torical data from these conceded documents 
 is overwhelming. The unquestioned great- 
 ness and keenness of the intellect which could 
 write these letters make his testimony for 
 Jesus most powerful. 
 
 Paul's Gospel is doctrinal rather than his- 
 torical, while the Synoptics are historical in 
 form rather than doctrinal. In John the two 
 elements are nearly balanced. But in all of 
 them the doctrines generally are based upon 
 facts of Christ's life or nature. What the facts 
 are which Paul used as texts for his unequaled 
 development of Christian truth must always 
 be of great interest. That all these facts were 
 
INTRODUCTION. 2 1 
 
 a direct communication to him from Christ, by 
 personal vision or through the Holy Spirit, it 
 is not necessary to affirm, though many of 
 them are expressly stated so to have been re- 
 ceived. For the truth of all, we have the un- 
 qualified testimony of this greatest apostle of 
 the Lord. Let us reverently meditate upon 
 his bundle of glorious letters which contain 
 them. 
 
 CHARLES ROADS. 
 St. Paui^'s Methodist Episcopai, Parsonage, 
 Phii,adei,phia, August, 1897. 
 
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 Chapter I. 
 
 PAUL'S PREFACE TO HIS REVELATION OF 
 CHRIST. 
 
 FAITHFUL is the saying, and worthy of 
 all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came 
 into the world to save sinners, of whom I am 
 chief. 
 
 By revelation was made known unto me 
 the mystery, whereby, when ye read, ye can 
 perceive my understanding in the mystery of 
 Christ as it hath now been revealed unto his 
 holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit. 
 
 The gospel of the glory of the blessed God, 
 which was committed to my trust, whereunto 
 I was appointed a preacher and an apostle 
 (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the 
 Gentiles in faith and truth. 
 
 The gospel of the glory of Christ who is 
 
 the image of God. 
 
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24 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is 
 the power of God unto salvation to every one 
 that believeth; to the Jew first and also to the 
 Greek. 
 
 Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive 
 that ye are somewhat superstitious. For as I 
 passed along, and observed the objects of your 
 worship, I found also an altar with this in- 
 scription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What there- 
 fore ye worship in ignorance, this set I forth 
 unto you. The God that made the world and 
 all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven 
 and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with 
 hands; neither is he served by men's hands, as 
 though he needed anything, seeing he himself 
 giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 
 and he made of one every nation of men for 
 to dwell on all the face of the earth, having de- 
 termined then appointed seasons, and the 
 bounds of their habitation; that they should 
 seek God, if haply they might feel after him, 
 and find him, though he is not far from each 
 one of us: for in him we live, and move, and 
 
PAUL'S PREFACE, 25 
 
 have our being; as certain even of your own 
 poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 
 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not 
 to think that the Godhead is hke unto gold, 
 or silver, or stone, graven by art and device 
 of man. The times of ignorance therefore 
 God overlooked; but now he commandeth 
 men that they should all' everywhere repent. 
 
 Our gospel came not unto you in word 
 only, but also in power, and in the Holy 
 Ghost, and in much assurance. 
 
 For therein is revealed a righteousness of 
 God by faith unto faith; as it is written, But 
 the righteous shall live by faith. 
 
 The grace of God was given you in Christ 
 Jesus; that in everything ye were enriched in 
 him in all utterance and in all knowledge. 
 
 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of 
 Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's 
 elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is 
 according to godliness, in hope of eternal life, 
 which God, who can not lie, promised before 
 times eternal; but in his own seasons mani- 
 
26 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL, 
 
 fested his word in the message, wherewith I 
 was intrusted according to the commandment 
 of God our Savior. 
 
 I make known to you, brethren, as touch- 
 ing the gospel that was preached by me, that 
 it is not after man. For neither did I receive 
 it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came 
 to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. 
 
 When it was the good pleasure of God to 
 reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him 
 among the Gentiles, immediately I conferred 
 not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to 
 Jerusalem to them that were apostles before 
 me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I 
 returned unto Damascus. 
 
 Then after three years I went up to Jeru- 
 salem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him 
 fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I 
 none, save James the Lord's brother. 
 
 Then after the space of fourteen years I 
 went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, 
 taking Titus also with me. And I went up by 
 revelation; and I laid before them the gospel 
 which I preach among the Gentiles, but pri- 
 
PAUL'S PREFACE. 27 
 
 vately before them who were of repute, lest by 
 any means I should be running, or had run in 
 vain. But from those who were reputed to be 
 somewhat (whatsover they were, it maketh no 
 matter to me: God accepteth not man's per- 
 son) — they, I say, who were of repute im- 
 parted nothing to me: (for he that wrought 
 for Peter unto the apostleship of the circum- 
 cision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles) ; 
 and when they perceived the grace that was 
 given unto me, James and Cephas and John, 
 they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to 
 me and Barnabas the right hands of fellow- 
 ship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and 
 they unto the circumcision; only they zvoiild 
 that we should remember the poor; which 
 very thing I was also zealous to do. 
 
 Passages quoted — i Tim. i, 15 ; Eph. iii, 3-5 ; i Tim. 
 ii, 7; 2 Cor. iv, 4; Rom, i, 16; Acts xvii ; i Thess. i, 5; 
 Rom. i, 17; I Cor. i, 4, 5 ; Titus i, 1-3; Gal. i, 11, 12; 
 Gal. i, 15-17; Gal. i, 18, 19; Gal. ii, 6-10. 
 
Chapter II. 
 
 THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL. 
 
 DLESSED be the God and Father of our 
 -^-^ Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us 
 with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly 
 places in Christ: even as he chose us in him be- 
 fore the foundation of the world, that we 
 should be holy and without blemish before him 
 in love, having foreordained us unto adoption 
 as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, ac- 
 cording to the good pleasuT-e of his will, to the 
 praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely 
 bestowed on us in the Beloved: in whom we 
 have our redemption through his blood, the 
 forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the 
 riches of his grace, which he made to abound 
 toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having 
 made known unto us the mystery of his will, 
 according to his good pleasure which he pur- 
 posed in him unto a dispensation of the fullness 
 
 of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, 
 28 
 
THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL, 29 
 
 the things in the heavens, and the things upon 
 the earth; in him, / say, in whom also we were 
 made a heritage, having been foreordained 
 according to the purpose of him who worketh 
 all things after the counsel of his will; to the 
 end that we should be unto the praise of his 
 glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: in 
 whom ye also, having heard the word of the 
 truth, the gospel of your salvation, — in whom, 
 having also believed, ye were sealed with the 
 Holy Spirit of promise, which is an earnest of 
 our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's 
 own possession, unto the praise of his glory. 
 
 Great is the mystery of godliness; He who 
 was manifested in the flesh, justified in the 
 Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the 
 nations, believed on in the world, received up 
 in glory. 
 
 His own purpose and grace, which was 
 given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, 
 hath now been manifested by the appearing 
 of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished 
 death, and brought life and incorruption to 
 light through the gospel, whereunto I was 
 
30 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a 
 teacher. 
 
 The grace of God hath appeared, bringing 
 salvation to all men, instructing us, to the in- 
 tent that, denying ungodliness and worldly 
 lusts, we should live soberly and righteously 
 and godly in this present world. 
 
 Ye yourselves know, how that from the first 
 day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner 
 
 1 was with you all the time, serving the Lord 
 with all lowliness of mind, and w^ith tears, and 
 with trials that befell me by the plots of the 
 Jews: how that I shrank not from declaring 
 unto you anything that was profitable, and 
 teaching you publicly, and from house to 
 house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks 
 repentance toward God and faith toward our 
 Lord Jesus Christ. So that I may accomplish 
 my course, and the ministry which I received 
 from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of 
 the grace of God. 
 
 Passages quoted — Eph. i, 3-14; i Tim. iii, 16; 
 
 2 Tim. i, 10; Titus ii, 11, 12; Acts xx, 18-24. 
 
Chapter III. 
 
 GENEALOGY OF CHRIST. 
 
 WHEN John had first preached before 
 his coming the baptism of repentance 
 to all the people of Israel. 
 
 And as John was fulfilling his course, he 
 said, What suppose ye that I am? I am not 
 he. But behold there cometh one after me, 
 the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to 
 unloose. 
 
 Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your 
 sakes he became poor, that ye through his 
 poverty might become rich. 
 
 God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, 
 born under the law, that he might redeem 
 them that were under the law, that we might 
 receive the adoption of sons. 
 
 Since then the children [of God] are shar- 
 ers in flesh and blood, he also in like manner 
 partook of the same. It behooved him in all 
 
 things to be made like unto his brethren, that 
 
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32 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 he might l^e a merciful and faithful high priest 
 in things pertaining to God, to make propitia- 
 tion for the sins of the people. For in that 
 he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is 
 able to succor them that are tempted. 
 
 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, 
 he saith, — 
 
 Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, 
 
 But a body didst thou prepare for me: 
 
 In whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for 
 sin thou hadst no pleasure; 
 
 Then said I, Lo, I am come 
 
 (In the roll of the book it is written of me) 
 
 To do thy will, O God. 
 
 By which will we are sanctified through 
 the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once 
 for all. 
 
 It was necessary that the Word of God 
 should first be spoken to you [Jews]. Seeing 
 ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves 
 unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the 
 Gentiles. For so hath the Lord commanded 
 us, saying, 
 
 I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, 
 
GENEALOGY OF CHRIST. 33 
 
 That thou shouldest be for salvation unto 
 the uttermost part of the earth. 
 
 I could wish that myself were anathema 
 from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kins- 
 men according to the flesh: who are Israelites; 
 whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the 
 covenants, and the giving of the law, and the 
 service of God, and the promises; whose are 
 the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concern- 
 ing the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 Passages quoted — Heb. i, 5-12; Rom. v; i Cor. xv; 
 Gal. iii, 16; Heb. vii, 14; i Cor. x, 4; Acts xiii, 23; Acts 
 xiii, 24 ; Acts xiii, 25 ; 2 Cor. viii, 9 ; Gal. iv, 4 ; Heb. ii, 
 14, 17, 18; Heb. X, 5-7, 10; Acts xiii, 46, 47; Rom. ix, 
 3-5- 
 
 For unto which of the angels said he at any 
 time, 
 
 Thou art my Son, 
 
 This day have I begotten thee? 
 and again, 
 
 I will be to him a Father, 
 
 And he shall be to me a Son? 
 
 And when he again bringeth in the first- 
 born into the world he saith. And let all the 
 
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34 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL, 
 
 angels of God worship himr And of the angels 
 he saith, 
 
 Who maketh his angels winds, 
 And his ministers a flame of fire: 
 but of the Son he saith, 
 
 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; 
 And the scepter of uprightness is the scep- 
 ter of thy kingdom. 
 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated 
 
 iniquity; 
 Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed 
 
 thee 
 With the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 
 And, 
 
 Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the 
 
 foundation of the earth. 
 And the heavens are the works of thy 
 
 hands: 
 They shall perish; but thou continuest: 
 And they all shall wax old as doth a gar- 
 ment; 
 And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, 
 As a garment, and they shall be changed: 
 But thou art the same, 
 
GENEALOGY OF CHRIST. 35 
 
 And thy years shall not fail. 
 
 We also rejoice in God through our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, through whom we have now re- 
 ceived the reconciliation. 
 
 Therefore, as through one man sin enteredt 
 into the world, and death through sin; and so 
 death passed unto all men, for that all sinned. 
 But not as the trespass, so also is the free 
 gift. For if by the trespass of the one the 
 many died, much more did the grace of God, 
 and the gift by the grace of the one man, 
 Jesus Christ, abound unto the many. So 
 then as through one trespass the judgment 
 came unto all men to condemnation; even so 
 through one act of righteousness tlie free gift 
 came unto all men to justification of life: but 
 where sin abounded, grace did abound more 
 exceedingly: that, as sin reigned in death, even 
 so might grace reign through righteousness 
 unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. 
 
 For since by man came death, by man 
 came also the resurrection of the dead. For 
 as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all 
 
36 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL, 
 
 be made alive. The first man Adam became 
 a living soul. The last Adam became a life- 
 giving spirit. 
 
 Now to Abraham were the promises 
 spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to 
 seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy 
 seed, which is Christ. And if ye are Christ's, 
 then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according 
 to promise. 
 
 For verily not of angels doth he take hold, 
 but he taketh hold of the seed of i\braham. 
 
 It is evident that our Lord hath sprung out 
 of Judah. 
 
 Our fathers were all under the cloud and 
 all passed through the sea; and all were bap- 
 tized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 
 and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and 
 drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, 
 drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, 
 and that rock was Christ. 
 
 Of David's seed hath God according to 
 promise brought unto Israel a Savior Jesus. 
 
Chapter IV. 
 
 PAUL'S CONVERSION AND CALL. 
 
 D^T Saul, yet breathing threatening and 
 -^-^ slaughter against the disciples of the 
 Lord, went unto the high priest, and asked 
 of him letters to Damascus unto the syna- 
 gogues, that if he found any that were of the 
 Way, whether men or women, he might bring 
 them bound to Jerusalem. And as he jour- 
 neyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto 
 Damascus: and suddenly there shone round 
 about him a light out of heaven: and he fell 
 upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto 
 him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 
 And he said. Who art thou. Lord? And he 
 said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: but 
 rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told 
 thee what thou must do. And the men that 
 journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing 
 the voice, but beholding no man. And Saul 
 arose from the earth; and when his eyes were 
 
 opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by 
 
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38 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 the hand, and brought him into Damascus. 
 And he was three days without sight, and did 
 neither eat nor drink. 
 
 Now there was a certain disciple at Da- 
 mascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said 
 unto him in a vision, Ananias. And he said. 
 Behold, I am here, Lord. And the Lord said 
 unto him. Arise, and go to the street which 
 is called Straight, and inquire in the house of 
 Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus: 
 for behold, he prayeth; and he hath seen a man 
 named Ananias coming in, and laying his 
 hands on him, that he might receive his sight. 
 But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard 
 from many of this man, how much evil he did 
 to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath 
 authority from the chief priests to bind all 
 that call upon thy name. But the Lord said 
 unto him. Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel 
 unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles 
 and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will 
 shew him how many things he must suffer for 
 my name's sake. And Ananias departed, and 
 entered into the house; and laying his hands 
 
PAUL'S CONVERSION AND CALL. 39 
 
 on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even 
 Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way 
 which thou earnest, hath sent me, that thou 
 mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the 
 Holy Ghost. And straightway there fell from 
 his eyes as it were scales, and he received his 
 sight; and he arose and was baptized; and he 
 took food and was strengthened. 
 
 And he was certain days with the disciples 
 which were at Damascus. And straightway 
 in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that 
 he is the Son of God. And all that heard him 
 were amazed, and said. Is not this he that in 
 Jerusalem made havoc of them which called 
 on this name? and he had come hither for this 
 intent, that he might bring them bound before 
 the chief priests. But Saul increased the more 
 in strength, and confounded the Jews which 
 dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the 
 Christ. 
 
 Now there were at Antioch, in the church 
 that Avas there, prophets and teachers, Barna- 
 bas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and 
 Lucius of Gyrene, and Manaen the foster- 
 
40 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. And 
 as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the 
 Holy Ghost said. Separate me Barnabas and 
 Saul for the work whereunto I have called 
 them. Then, when they had fasted and prayed 
 and laid their hands on them, they sent them 
 away. 
 
 But Saul, who is also called Paul, [was] 
 filled with the Holy Ghost. And Crispus, the 
 ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord 
 with all his house; and many of the Corinth- 
 ians hearing believed, and were baptized. And 
 the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vis- 
 ion, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy 
 peace: for I am with thee, and no man shall set 
 on thee to harm thee: for I have much people 
 in this city. And he dwelt there a year and 
 six months, teaching the word of God among 
 them. 
 
 But I hold not my life of any account, as 
 dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish 
 my course, and the ministry which I received 
 from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of 
 the grace of God. And now, behold, I know 
 
PAUL'S CONVERSION AND CALL. 4 1 
 
 that ye all, among whom I went about preach- 
 ing the kingdom, shall see my face no more. 
 Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I 
 am pure from the blood of all men. For I 
 shrank not from declaring unto you the whole 
 counsel of God. Take heed unto yourselves, 
 and to all the flock, in the which the Holy 
 Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the 
 church of God, which he purchased with his 
 own blood. I know that after my departing 
 grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not 
 sparing the flock; and from among your own 
 selves shall men arise, ' speaking perverse 
 things, to draw away the disciples after them. 
 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the 
 space of three years I ceased not to admonish 
 every one night and day with tears. And 
 now I commend you to God, and to the word 
 of his grace, which is able to build yon up, and 
 to give you the inheritance among all them 
 that are sanctified. I coveted no man's silver, 
 or gold, or apparel. Ye yourselves know that 
 these hands ministered unto my necessities, 
 and to them that were with me. In all things 
 
42 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL, 
 
 I gave you an example, how that so laboring 
 ye ought to help the weak. 
 
 Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened 
 in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the 
 things which thou hast heard from me among 
 many witnesses, the same commit thou to 
 faithful men, who shall be able to teach others 
 also. Suffer hardship with mc, as a good sol- 
 dier of Christ Jesus. No soldier on service 
 entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; 
 that he may please him who enrolled him as a 
 soldier. 
 
 And the Lord's servant must not strive, 
 but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, for- 
 bearing, in meekness correcting them that op- 
 pose themselves; if peradventure God may 
 give them repentance unto the knowledge of 
 the truth, and they may recover themselves 
 out of the snare of the devil, having been 
 taken captive by the Lord's servant unto the 
 will of Gpd. 
 
 Passages quoted — Acts ix, 1-22 ; Acts xiii, 1-3 ; Acts 
 xiii, 9; Acts xviii, 8-1 1; Acts xx, 24-35 ; 2 Tim. ii, 1-4, 
 24-26. 
 
Chapter V. 
 
 THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST. 
 
 A ND he gave some to be apostles; and 
 -'*■ some, prophets; and some, evangehsts; 
 and some, pastors and teachers. 
 
 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be 
 an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 
 which he promised afore by his prophets in 
 the holy scriptures, concerning his Son, who 
 was born of the seed of David according to 
 the flesh, who was declared to he the Son of 
 God with power, according to the spirit of 
 holiness, by the resurrection of the dead; even 
 Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we re- 
 ceived grace and apostleship, unto obedience 
 of faith among all the nations, for his name's 
 sake: among whom are ye also called to he 
 Jesus Christ's. 
 
 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through 
 the will of God. 
 
 I will not dare to speak of any things save 
 
 those which Christ wrought through me, for 
 
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44 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and 
 deed, in the power of signs and wonders, in 
 the power of the Holy Ghost; so that from Je- 
 rusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, 
 I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. 
 
 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought 
 among you in all patience, by signs and won- 
 ders and mighty works. In nothing w^as I 
 behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am 
 nothing. 
 
 I was made a minister, according to the 
 dispensation of God which was given me to 
 you-ward, to fulfill the word of God, even 
 the mystery which hath been hid from all ages 
 and generations: but now hath it been mani- 
 fested to his saints, to whom God was pleased 
 to make known what is the riches of the glory 
 of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is 
 Christ in you, the hope of glory; whom we 
 proclaim, admonishing every man and teach- 
 ing every man in all wisdom, that we may pre- 
 sent every man perfect in Christ; whereunto 
 I labor also, striving according to his work- 
 ing, which worketh in me mightily. 
 
• THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST. 45 
 
 So that ye continue in the faith, grounded 
 and steadfast, and not moved away from the 
 hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was 
 preached in all creation under heaven; whereof 
 I Paul was made a minister. 
 
 I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but 
 brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, 
 instructed according to the strict manner of 
 the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, 
 even as ye all are this day: and I persecuted 
 this Way unto the death, binding and deHver- 
 ing into prisons both men and women. As 
 also the high priest doth bear me witness, and 
 all the estate of the elders: from whom also I 
 received letters unto the brethren, and jour- 
 neyed to Damascus, to bring them also which 
 were there unto Jerusalem in bonds, for to be 
 punished. And it came to pass, that, as I 
 made my journey, and drew nigh unto Da- 
 mascus, about noon, suddenly there shone 
 from heaven a great light round about me. 
 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice 
 saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest 
 thou me? And I answered. Who art thoU, 
 
46 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of 
 Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. And they 
 that were with me beheld indeed the Hght, but 
 they heard not the voice of him that spake 
 to me. And I said, What shall I do, Lord? 
 And the Lord said unto me. Arise, and go 
 into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee 
 of all things which are appointed for thee to 
 do. And when I could not see for the glory 
 of that light, being led by the hand of them 
 that were with me, I came into Damascus. 
 And one Ananias, a devout man according to 
 the law, well reported of by all the Jews' that 
 dwelt there, came unto me, and standing by 
 me said unto me. Brother Saul, receive thy 
 sight. And in that very hour I looked up on 
 him. And he said. The God of our fathers 
 hath appointed thee to know his will, and to 
 see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice 
 from his mouth. For thou shalt be a witness 
 for him unto all men of what thou hast seen 
 and heard. And now why tarriest thou? arise, 
 and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, call- 
 ing on his name. And it came to pass, that, 
 
THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST. 47 
 
 when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while 
 I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance, and 
 saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and 
 get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: because 
 they will not receive of thee testimony con- 
 cerning me. And I said, Lord, they them- 
 selves know that I imprisoned and beat in 
 every synagogue them that believed on thee: 
 and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was 
 shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, 
 and keeping the garments of them that slew 
 him. And he said unto me, Depart: for I will 
 send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles. 
 My manner of life then from my youth up, 
 which was from the beginning among mine 
 own nation, and at Jerusalem, know all the 
 Jews; having knowledge of me from the first, 
 if they be willing to testify, how that after the 
 straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. 
 And now I stand here to be judged for the 
 hope of the promise made of God unto our 
 fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, 
 earnestly serving God night and day, hope to 
 attain. And concerning this hope I am ac- 
 
48 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 cused by the Jews, O king! Why is it judged 
 incredible with you, if God doth raise the 
 dead? I verily thought with myself, that I 
 ought to do many things contrary to the name 
 of Jesus of Nazareth. And this I also did in 
 Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the 
 saints in prisons, having received authority 
 from the chief priests, and when they were put 
 to death, I gave my vote against them. And 
 punishing them oftentimes in all the syna- 
 gogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; 
 and being exceedingly mad against them, I 
 persecuted them even unto foreign cities. 
 Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with 
 the authority and commission of the chief 
 priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the way 
 a light from heaven, above the brightness of 
 the sun, shining round about me and them 
 that journeyed with me. And when we were 
 all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying 
 unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, 
 why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee 
 to kick against the goad. And I said, Who 
 art thou. Lord? And the Lord said, I am 
 
THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST, 49 
 
 Jesus whom thou persecutest. But arise, and 
 stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I 
 appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister 
 and a witness both of the things wherein thou 
 hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will 
 appear unto thee; delivering thee from the 
 people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I 
 send thee, to open their eyes, that they may 
 turn from darkness to light, and from the 
 power of Satan unto God, that they may re- 
 ceive remission of sins and an inheritance 
 among them that are sanctified by faith in me. 
 So then ye [Gentiles] are no more 
 strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens 
 with the saints, and of the household of God, 
 being built upon the foundation of the apostles 
 and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the 
 chief cornerstone. 
 
 Passages quoted — Eph. iv, 11; Rom. i, 1-6; 2 Cor. 
 i, i; Rom. xv, 18, 19; 2 Cor. xii, 12; Col. i, 25-29; Col. 
 i, 23: Acts xxii, 3-21 ; Acts xxvi, 4-18; Eph. ii, 19, 20. 
 
 4 
 
Chapter VI. 
 
 PAULINE ECHOES OF THE SERMON ON 
 THE MOUNT. 
 
 p VEN as David also pronounceth blessing 
 *~^ upon the man, unto whom God reckon- 
 eth righteousness apart from works, saying, 
 
 Blessed are they whose iniquities are for- 
 given, 
 
 And whose sins are covered. 
 
 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will 
 not reckon sin. 
 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that 
 which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 
 In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned 
 one to another; in honor preferring one an- 
 other; in diligence not slothful; fervent in 
 spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; 
 patient in tribulation; continuing steadfastly 
 in prayer; communicating to the necessities of 
 the saints; given to hospitality. Bless them 
 
 that persecute you; bless, and curse not. Re- 
 50 
 
SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 5 1 
 
 joice with them that rejoice; weep with them 
 that weep. Be of the same mind one toward 
 another. Set not your mind on high things, 
 but condescend to things that are lowly. Be 
 not wise in your conceits. Render to no man 
 evil for evil. Take thought for things honor- 
 able in the sight of all men. If it be possible, 
 as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all 
 men. Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but 
 give place unto wrath: for it is written, Ven- 
 geance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, 
 saith the Lord. But if thine enemy hunger, 
 feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for 
 in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon 
 his head. Be not overcome of evil, but over- 
 come evil with good. 
 
 Owe no man anything, save to love one 
 another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath 
 fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not 
 commit adulterv, Thou shalt not kill. Thou 
 
 ^ - 
 
 shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet, and if 
 there be any other commandment, it is 
 summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt 
 
52 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL, 
 
 love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh 
 no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the 
 fulfillment of the law. 
 
 If I speak with the tongues of men and of 
 angels, but have not love, I am become sound- 
 ing brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I 
 have \]ie gift of prophecy, and know all mys- 
 teries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, 
 so as to remove mountains, but have not love, 
 I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods 
 to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be 
 burned, but have not love, it proliteth me 
 nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; 
 love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is 
 not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, 
 seeketh not its own, is not provoked; taketh 
 not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unright- 
 eousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth 
 all things, believeth all things, hopeth all 
 things, endureth all things. Love never fail- 
 eth: but whether there he prophecies, they shall 
 be done away; whether there he tongues, they 
 shall cease; whether there he knowledge, it 
 shall be done away. For we know in part, 
 
SERMON ON THE MOUNT, 53 
 
 and we prophesy in part: Init when that which 
 is perfect is come, that which is in part shall 
 be done away. When I was a child, I spake 
 as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a 
 child: now that I am become a man, I have 
 put away childish things. For now we see in 
 a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now 
 I know in part; but then shall I know even 
 as also I have been known. But now abideth 
 faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest 
 of these is love. 
 
 We exhort you, brethren, admonish the 
 disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, sup- 
 port the weak, l)e longsuffering toward all. 
 See that none render unto any one evil for 
 evil; but alway follow after that which is good, 
 one toward another, and toward all. Rejoice 
 alway; pray without ceasing; in everything 
 give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ 
 Jesus to you-ward. Quench not the Spirit; 
 despise not prophesyings; prove all things; 
 hold fast that which is good; abstain from 
 every form of evil. 
 
 And the God of peace himself sanctify you 
 
54 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body 
 be preserved entire, without blame at the com- 
 ing of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he 
 that calleth you, who will also do it. 
 
 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching 
 therein with thanksgiving; withal praying for 
 us also, that God may open unto us a door 
 for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, 
 for which I am also in bonds. In nothing be 
 anxious; but in everything by prayer and sup- 
 plication with thanksgiving let your requests 
 be made known unto God. And the peace 
 of God, which passeth all understanding, shall 
 guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ 
 Jesus. 
 
 Wherefore thou art without excuse, O 
 man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for 
 wherein thou judgest another, thou condemn- 
 est thyself; for thou that judgest dost practice 
 the same things. And we know that the judg- 
 ment of God is according to truth against 
 them that practice such things. And reckon- 
 est thou this, O man, who judgest them that 
 practice such things, and doest the same, that 
 
SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 55 
 
 thou shalt escape the jiulgment of God? Or 
 despisest thou the riches of his goodness and 
 forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing 
 that the goodness of God Icadeth thee to re- 
 pentance? but after thy hardness and impeni- 
 tent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in 
 the day of wrath and revelation of the right- 
 eous judgment of God. 
 
 Passages quoted — Rom. iv, 6-8; Rom. xii, 9-21; 
 Rom. xiii, 8-10; i Cor. xiii, 1-13; i Thess. v, 14-24; 
 Col. iv, 2, 3 ; Phil, iv, 6, 7 ; Rom. ii, 1-5. 
 
Chapter VII. 
 
 CHRIST JESUS IN WORD AND DEED. 
 
 REMEMBER the words of the Lord Jesus, 
 how he hhnself said, It is more blessed 
 to give than to receive. 
 
 But when the kindness of God our Savior, 
 and his love toward man, appeared, not by 
 works done in righteousness, which we did our- 
 selves, but according to his mercy he saved 
 us, through the washing of regeneration and 
 renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he poured 
 out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our 
 Savior; that, being justified by his grace, we 
 might be made heirs according to the hope 
 of eternal life. 
 
 I entreat you by the meekness and gentle- 
 ness of Christ. 
 
 Christ pleased not himself; but as it is writ- 
 ten. The reproaches of them that reproached 
 thee fell upon me. 
 
 Christ hath been made a minister of the 
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CHRIST JESUS IN WORD AND DEED, 57 
 
 circumcision for the truth of God, that he 
 might confirm the promises given unto the 
 fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify 
 God for his mercy; as it is written, 
 
 Therefore will 1 give praise unto thee 
 among the Gentiles, 
 
 And sing unto thy name. 
 And again he saith. 
 
 Rejoice ye Gentiles with his people, 
 and again, 
 
 Praise the Lord all ye Gentiles, 
 
 And let all the people praise him. 
 And again Isaiah saith, 
 
 There shall be a root of Jesse, 
 
 And he that ariseth to rule over the Gen- 
 tiles, 
 
 On him shall the Gentiles hope. 
 
 The Lord said unto me. My grace is suffi- 
 cient for thee, for my power is made perfect in 
 weakness. 
 
 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so ful- 
 fill the law of Christ. 
 
 He came and preached peace to you that 
 
58 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 were far off and to them that were nigh: for 
 through him we both have our access in one 
 Spirit unto the Father. 
 
 Ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 
 may be strong to apprehend with all saints 
 what is the breadth and length and height 
 and depth, and to know the love of Christ 
 which passeth knowledge, that ye may be 
 filled unto all the fullness of God. 
 
 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, 
 and gave himself up for us, an offering and a 
 sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell. 
 
 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou 
 shalt be saved, thou and thy house. 
 
 Christ also is the head of the Church, being 
 himself the Savior of the body. 
 
 I can do all things in him that strengthen- 
 eth me. 
 
 Have this mind in you, which was also in 
 Christ Jesus; who being in the form of God, 
 counted it not a prize to be on an equality 
 with God, but emptied himself, taking the 
 form of a servant, being made in the likeness 
 of men, and being found in fashion as a man, 
 
CHRIST JESUS IN WORD AND DEED. 59 
 
 he humbled himself, becoming obedient even 
 unto death, yea, the death of the cross. 
 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and 
 gave unto him the name that is above every 
 name; that in the name of Jesus every knee 
 should bow, of things in heaven and things 
 on earth, and things under the earth, and that 
 every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ 
 is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 
 
 Christ, in whom are all the treasures of 
 wisdom and knowledge hidden. In him dwell- 
 eth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 
 
 God, having of old time spoken unto the 
 fathers in the prophets by divers portions and 
 in divers manners, hath at the end of these 
 days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he ap- 
 pointed heir of all things, through whom also 
 he made the worlds; who being the effulgence 
 of his glory, and the very image of his sub- 
 stance, and upholding all things by the word 
 of his power, when he had made purification of 
 sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty 
 on high; having become by so much better 
 than the angels, as he hath inherited a more 
 
6o THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 excellent name than they. How shall we es- 
 cape, if we neglect so great salvation? which 
 having at the first been spoken through the 
 Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that 
 heard; God also bearing witness with them, 
 both by signs and wonders, and by manifold 
 powers, and by gifts of the Holy Ghost, ac- 
 cording to his own will. 
 
 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a 
 heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and 
 High Priest of our confession, even Jesus; who 
 was faithful to him that appointed him, as also 
 was Moses in all his house. For he hath been 
 counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by 
 so much as he that built the house hath more 
 honor than the house. For every house is 
 builded by some one; but he that built all 
 things is God. And Moses indeed was faith- 
 ful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony 
 of those things which were afterward to be 
 spoken; but Christ as a son, over his house. 
 
 So Christ also glorified not himself to be 
 made a high priest, but he that spake unto 
 him. 
 
CHRIST JESUS IN WORD AND DEED. 6 1 
 
 Thou art my Son, 
 This day have I begotten thee: 
 as he saith also in another place^ 
 Thou art a priest forever 
 After the order of Melchizedek. 
 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered 
 up prayers and supplications with strong cry- 
 ing and tears unto him that was able to save 
 him from death, and having been heard for 
 his godly fear, though he was a Son, yet 
 learned obedience by the things which he suf- 
 fered; and having been made perfect, he be- 
 came unto all them that obey him the author 
 of eternal salvation; named of God a high 
 priest after the order of Melchizedek. 
 
 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest 
 of God Most High, who met Abraham return- 
 ing from the slaughter of the kings, and 
 blessed him, to whom also Abraham divided 
 a tenth part of all (being first, by interpreta- 
 tion, King of righteousness, and then also 
 King of Salem, which is, King of peace; with- 
 out father, without mother, without gene- 
 alogy, having neither beginning of days nor 
 
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 end of life, but made like unto the Son of 
 God), abideth a priest continually. 
 
 By so much also hath Jesus become the 
 surety of a better covenant. And the Holy 
 Ghost also beareth witness to us; for after he 
 hath said, 
 
 This is the covenant that I will make with 
 them after those days, saith the Lord; 
 
 I will put my laws on their heart. 
 
 And upon their minds also will I write 
 them. 
 Then saith he, 
 
 And their sins and their iniquities will I re- 
 member no more. 
 
 Now where remission of those is, there is 
 no more offering for sin. 
 
 Ye are come to Jesus, the mediator of the 
 new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkHng 
 that speaketh better than that of Abel. See 
 that ye refuse not him that speaketh. 
 
 Now he hath promised, saying. Yet once 
 more will I make to tremble not the earth 
 only, but also the heaven. And this word. Yet 
 once more, signifieth the removing of those 
 
CHRIST JESUS IX JVORD AND DEED. 63 
 
 things that are shaken, as of things that have 
 been made, that those things which are not 
 shaken may remain. 
 
 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to- 
 day, yea and for ever. 
 
 Other foundation can no man lay than that 
 which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 
 
 Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ 
 Jesus shall suffer persecution. 
 
 Passages quoted — Acts xx, 35 ; Titus iii, 4-7 ; 2 Cor, 
 X, I ; Rom. xv, 3 ; Rom. xv, 8-12; 2 Cor. xii, 9; Gal. vi, 
 2; Eph. ii, 18; Eph. iii, 17-19; Eph. v, 2; Acts xvi, 31; 
 Eph. V, 23; Phil, iv, 12; Phil, xii, 5-1 1 ; Col. ii, 9; Heb. 
 i, 1-4; Heb. ii, 3, 4; Heb. iii, 1-6; Heb. v, 5-10: Heb. vii, 
 1-3; Heb. X, 16-18; Heb. xii, 24; Heb. xii, 26, 27; Heb. 
 xiii, 8; i Cor. iii, 11 ; 2 Tim. iii, 12. 
 
Chapter VIII. 
 
 CHRIST, THROUGH AMBASSADOR PAUL, SPEAK- 
 ING TO ALL LIKE NICODEMUS. 
 
 WE are ambassadors therefore on behalf 
 of Christ, as though God were intreat- 
 ing by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, 
 be ye reconciled to God. Wherefore if any 
 man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old 
 things are passed away; behold, they are be- 
 come new. But all things are of God, w^ho 
 reconciled us to himself through Christ, and 
 gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; 
 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the 
 world unto himself, not reckoning unto them 
 their trespasses, and having committed unto 
 us the word of reconciliation. 
 
 There is therefore now no condemnation 
 to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the law 
 of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me 
 free from the law of sin and of death. For 
 what the law could not do, in that it was weak 
 
 through the flesh, God, sending his own Son 
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CHRIST SPEAKING TO ALL. 65 
 
 in the likeness of sinful llesh and as an offering 
 for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the 
 ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, 
 who walk not after the flesh, but after the 
 spirit. For they that are after the flesh do 
 mind the things of the flesh; but they that are 
 after the spirit the things of the spirit. For the 
 mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the 
 spirit is life and peace: because the mind of 
 the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not 
 subject to the law of God, neither indeed can 
 it be: and they that are in the flesh can not 
 please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but 
 in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God 
 dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the 
 Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if 
 Christ is in you, the body is dead because of 
 sin; but the spirit is life because of righteous- 
 ness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up 
 Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that 
 raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall 
 quicken also your mortal bodies through his 
 Spirit that dwelleth in you. 
 
 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to 
 
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66 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO TAUL. 
 
 the flesh, to Hve after the flesh: for if ye Uve 
 after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the spirit 
 ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 
 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 
 these are sons of God. For ye received not 
 the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye 
 received the spirit of adoption, whereby we 
 cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself beareth 
 witness with our spirit, that we are children of 
 God. 
 
 We who died to sin, how shall we any 
 longer live therein? Or are ye ignorant that 
 all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus 
 were baptized into his death? We were buried 
 therefore with him through baptism into 
 death: that like as Christ was raised from the 
 dead through the glory of the Father, so we 
 also might walk in newness of life. For if we 
 have become united with him by the likeness 
 of his death, we shall be also hy the likeness 
 of his resurrection; knowing this, that our old 
 man was crucified with him, that the body of 
 sin might be done away, that so we should no 
 longer be in bondage to sin; for he that hath 
 
CHRIST SPEAKING TO ALL, 67 
 
 died is justified from sin. But if we died with 
 Christ, we beHeve that we shall also live with 
 him; knowing that Christ being raised from 
 the dead dieth no more; death no more hath 
 dominion over him. For the death that he 
 died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he 
 liveth, he liveth unto God. Even so reckon 
 ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but 
 alive unto God in Christ Jesus. For I through 
 the law died unto the law, that I might live 
 unto God. I have been crucified with Christ; 
 yet I live, and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth 
 in me: and that life which I now live in the 
 flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the 
 Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself 
 up for me. 
 
 Passages quoted — 2 Cor. v, 20; 2 Cor. v, 17-19; Rom. 
 viii, 1-16; Rom. vi, 3-11; Gal. ii, 19, 20. 
 
Chapter IX. 
 
 REDEMPTION THROUGH CHRIST. 
 
 "NT O flesh should glory before God. But of 
 ■*■ ^ him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made 
 unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness, 
 and sanctification, and redemption: that, ac- 
 cording as it is written. He that glorieth, let 
 him glory in the Lord. Giving thanks unto 
 the Father, who made us meet to be partakers 
 of the inheritance of the saints in light; who 
 delivered us out of the power of darkness, and 
 translated us into the kingdom of the Son of 
 his love; in whom we have our redemption, 
 the forgiveness of our sins: who is the image 
 of the invisible God, the firstborn of all cre- 
 ation; for in him were all things created, in the 
 heavens and upon the earth, things visible and 
 things invisible, whether thrones or domin- 
 ions or principalities or powers; all things have 
 been created through him, and unto him; and 
 he is before all things, and in him all things 
 
 consist. And he is the head of the body, the 
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REDEMPTION THROUGH CHRIST. 69 
 
 church: who is the beginning, the firstborn 
 from the dead; that in all things he might have 
 the pre-eminence. For it was the good pleas- 
 ure of the Father that in him should all the full- 
 ness dwell; and through him to reconcile all 
 things unto himself, having made peace 
 through the blood of his cross; through him, 
 / say, whether things upon the earth, or things 
 in the heavens. 
 
 Be it known unto you therefore, brethren, 
 that through this man is proclaimed unto you 
 remission of sins; and by him every one that 
 believeth is justified from all things, from 
 which he could not be justified by the law of 
 Moses. Beware, therefore, lest that come 
 upon you which is spoken in the prophets: 
 
 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and 
 perish; 
 
 For I work a work in your days, 
 
 A work which ye shall in no wise believe, 
 
 if one declare it unto you. 
 
 But now apart from the law a righteousness 
 
 of God hath been manifested, being witnessed 
 
 by the law and the prophets; even the right- 
 
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 eousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ 
 unto all them that believe; for there is no dis- 
 tinction; for all have sinned, and fall short of 
 the glory of God; being justified freely by his 
 grace through the redemption that is in Christ 
 Jesus: whom God set forth to he a propitiation, 
 through faith, by his blood, to shew his right- 
 eousness, because of the passing over of the 
 sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; 
 for the shewing, / say, of his righteousness at 
 this present season: that he might himself be 
 just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in 
 Jesus. 
 
 Unto whom it shall be reckoned, who be- 
 lieve on him that raised Jesus our Lord from 
 the dead, who was delivered up for our tres- 
 passes, and was raised for our justification. 
 
 Christ redeemed us from the curse of law, 
 having become a curse for us: for it is written. 
 Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. 
 
 Passages quoted — i Cor. i, 29-31 ; Col. i, 12-21 ; Acts 
 xiii, 38-41; Rom. iii, 21-26; Rom. iv, 24, 25; Gal. iii, 13. 
 
Chapter X. 
 
 PAULINE PARALLEL TO JOHN XIV. 
 
 NT OW our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and 
 
 ■*• ^ God our Father whicli loved us and gave 
 
 us eternal comfort and good hope through 
 
 grace, comfort your hearts and stablish them 
 
 in every good work and word. 
 
 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 
 
 Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God 
 
 of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our 
 
 affliction, that we may be able to comfort 
 
 them that are in any affliction, through the 
 
 comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted 
 
 of God. For as the sufferings of Christ 
 
 abound unto us, even so our comfort also 
 
 aboundeth through Christ. For our light 
 
 affliction, which is for the moment, worketh 
 
 for us more and more exceedingly an eternal 
 
 weight of glory; while we look not at the 
 
 things which are seen, but at the things which 
 
 are not seen : for the things which are seen are 
 
 temporal; but the things which are not seen 
 
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72 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 are eternal. For we know that if the earthly 
 house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have 
 a building from God, a house not made with 
 hands, eternal, in the heavens. For verily in 
 this we groan, longing to be clothed upon 
 with our habitation which is from heaven: if 
 so be that being clothed we shall not be found 
 naked. For indeed we that are in this taber- 
 nacle do groan, being burdened; not for that 
 we would be unclothed, but that we would 
 be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be 
 swallowed up of life. For I am already being 
 offered, and the time of my departure is come. 
 I have fought the good fight, I have finished 
 the course, I have kept the faith: henceforth 
 there is laid up for me the crown of righteous- 
 ness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, 
 shall give to me at that day: and not only to 
 me, but also to all them that have loved his 
 appearing. 
 
 Wherefore I give you to understand, that 
 no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, 
 Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus 
 is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit. 
 
PAULINE PARALLEL TO JOHN XIV, 73 
 
 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the 
 same Spirit. And there are diversities of min- 
 istrations, and the same Lord. And there 
 are diversities of workings, but the same God, 
 who worketh all things in all. But to each one 
 is given the manifestation of the Spirit to 
 profit withal. For to one is given through the 
 Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another 
 the word of knowledge, according to the same 
 Spirit: to another faith, in the same Spirit; 
 and to another gifts of healings, in the one 
 Spirit; and to another workings of miracles; 
 and to another prophecy; and to another dis- 
 cernings of spirits: to another divers kinds of 
 tongues; and to another the interpretation of 
 tongues: but all these worketh the one and 
 the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally 
 even as he will. 
 
 Howbeit we speak wisdom among the per- 
 fect: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of 
 the rulers of this world, which are coming to 
 nought: but we speak God's wisdom in a 
 mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hid- 
 den, which God foreordained before the 
 
74 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 worlds unto our glory: which none of the rul- 
 ers of this world knoweth: for had they known 
 it, they would not have crucified the Lord of 
 glory: but as it is written, 
 
 Things which eye saw not, and ear heard 
 not. 
 
 And zvhich entered not into the heart of 
 man. 
 
 Whatsoever things God prepared for them 
 that love him. 
 But unto us God revealed tJiem through the 
 Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, 
 the deep things of God. For who among men 
 knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit 
 of the man, which is in him? even so the 
 things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit 
 of God. But we received, not the spirit of the 
 world, but the spirit which is of God; that we 
 might know the things that are freely given to 
 us by God. Which things also we speak, not 
 in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but 
 which the Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual 
 things with spiritual. Now the natural man 
 receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: 
 
PAULINE PARALLEL TO JOHN XIV. 75 
 
 for they are foolishness unto him; and he can 
 not know them, because they are spiritually 
 judged. But he that is spiritual judgeth all 
 things, and he himself is judged of no man. 
 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, 
 that he should instruct him? But we have 
 the mind of Christ. 
 
 Passages quoted— 2 Thess. ii, 16, 17; 2 Cor. i, 3-5; 
 2 Cor. iv, 17; V, 4; 2 Tim. iv, 6-8; i Cor. xii, 3-1 1 ; i Cor. 
 ii, 6-16. 
 
Chapter XI. 
 
 THE LAST SUPPER AND THE CRUCIFIXION. 
 
 THE cup of blessing which we bless, is it 
 not a communion of the blood of Christ? 
 The bread which we break, is it not a com- 
 munion of the body of Christ? Seeing that 
 we, who are many, are one bread, one body: 
 for we all partake of the one bread. 
 
 I received of the Lord that which also I 
 delivered unto you, how that the Lord Jesus 
 in the night in which he was betrayed took 
 bread; and when he had given thanks, he 
 brake it and said. This is my body, which is 
 for you: this do in remembrance of me.- In 
 like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, 
 This cup is the new covenant in my blood: 
 this do, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance 
 of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and 
 drink the cup, ye do proclaim the Lord's death 
 till he come. 
 
 Now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far 
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THE LAST SUPPER, 77 
 
 off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For 
 he is our peace, who made both one, and 
 broke down the middle wall of partition, hav- 
 ing abolished in his llesh the enmity, even the 
 law of commandments contained in ordi- 
 nances; that he might create in himself of 
 twain one new man, so making peace, and 
 might reconcile them both in one body unto 
 God through the cross, having slain the en- 
 mity thereby. 
 
 They that, dwell in Jerusalem, and their 
 rulers, because they knew him not, nor the 
 voices of the prophets which are read every 
 Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 
 
 The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus 
 and the prophets, and drave out us. 
 
 And though they found no cause of death 
 in him, yet asked they of Pilate that he should 
 be slain. Christ Jesus, who before Pontius 
 Pilate witnessed a good confession. 
 
 And when they had fulfilled all things that 
 were written of him, they took him down from 
 the tree, and laid him In a tomb. 
 
78 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 It behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise 
 again from the dead; and this Jesus is the 
 Christ. 
 
 Christ died for the ungodly. While we 
 were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 
 
 The death that he died he died unto sin 
 once; but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto 
 God. 
 
 God sending his own Son in the likeness 
 of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, con- 
 demned sin in the flesh. 
 
 We preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a 
 stumbling-block, and unto Gentiles foolish- 
 ness; but unto them that are called, both Jews 
 and Gentiles, Christ the power of God, and 
 the wisdom of God. 
 
 We speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even 
 the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God 
 foreordained before the worlds unto our glory: 
 which none of the rulers of this world know- 
 eth: for had they known it, they would not 
 have crucified the Lord of Glory. 
 
 Our Passover also hath been sacrificed, 
 even Christ. 
 
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 The sufferings of Christ abound unto us. 
 
 God was in Christ reconciHng the world 
 unto himself, not reckoning unto them their 
 trespasses. 
 
 Him who knew no sin he made to be sin 
 on our behalf; that we might become the 
 righteousness of God in him. 
 
 The Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself 
 for our sins, that he might deliver us out of 
 this present evil world, according to the will 
 of our God and Father. 
 
 Be it far from me to glory save in the cross 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 We behold him who hath been made a little 
 lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of 
 the suffering of death crowned with glory and 
 honor, that by the grace of God he should 
 taste death for every man. For it became 
 him, for whom are all things, and through 
 whom are all things, in bringing many sons 
 unto glory, to make the author of their salva- 
 tion perfect through sufferings; that through 
 death he might bring to nought him that had 
 the power of death, that is, the devil; and 
 
8o THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 might deliver all them who through fear of 
 death were all their lifetime subject to bond- 
 age. Nor yet that he should offer himself 
 often; as the high priest entereth into the holy 
 place year by year with blood not his own; 
 else must he often have suffered since the 
 foundation of the world: but now once at the 
 end of the ages hath he been manifested to 
 put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 
 
 Looking unto Jesus, who for the joy that 
 was set before him endured the cross, despis- 
 ing shame, and hath been set down at the 
 right hand of the throne of God. For con- 
 sider him that hath, endured such gainsaying 
 of sinners against themselves, that ye wax not 
 weary, fainting in your souls. 
 
 Jesus also, that he might sanctify the peo- 
 ple through his own blood, suffered without 
 the gate. 
 
 Passages quoted — i Cor. x, 16-17; i Cor. xi, 23-26; 
 EpK ii, 13-16; Acts xiii, 27; i Thess. ii, 15; Acts xiii, 
 28; I Tim. vi, 13; Acts xiii, 29; Acts xvii, 3; Rom. v, 
 7, 8 ; Rom. vi, 10 ; Rom. viii, 3 ; i Cor. i, 23, 24 ; i Cor. 
 ii, 7, 8 ; I Cor. v, 7; 2 Cor. i, 5 ; 2 Cor. v, 19 ; 2 Cor. v, 21 ; 
 Gal. i, 4; Gal. vi, 14 ; Heb. ii, 9, 10 ; Heb. ii, 15 ; Heb. ix, 
 25, 26 ; Heb. xii, 2 ; Heb. xiii, 12. 
 
Chapter XII. 
 
 RESURRECTION. 
 
 13 UT God raised him from the dead: and 
 '-^ he was seen for many days of them that 
 came up with him from Gahlee to Jerusalem, 
 who are now his witnesses unto the people. 
 And we bring you good tidings of the promise 
 made unto the fathers, how that God hath ful- 
 filled the same unto our children, in that he 
 raised up Jesus; as also it is written in the 
 second psalm. Thou art my Son, this day have 
 I begotten thee. And as concerning that he 
 raised him up from the dead, now no more to 
 return to corruption, he hath spoken on this 
 wise, I will give you the holy and sure bless- 
 ings of David. Because he saith also in an- 
 other psalm, Thou wilt not give thy Holy One 
 to see corruption. For David, after he had in 
 his own generation served the counsel of God, 
 fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and 
 saw corruption: but he whom God raised up 
 saw no corruption. 
 
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82 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the 
 dead, of the seed of David, according to my 
 Gospel. 
 
 To this end Christ died, and lived again, 
 that he might be Lord of both the dead and 
 the living. 
 
 Christ died for our sins according to the 
 Scriptures; and he was buried, and he hath 
 been raised on the third day according to the 
 Scriptures; and that he appeared unto Cephas: 
 then to the tv^elve; then he appeared to above 
 five hundred brethren at once, of w^hom the 
 greater part remain until now, but some are 
 fallen asleep: then he appeared unto James: 
 then to all the apostles: and last of all, as unto 
 one born out of due time, he appeared unto 
 me also. 
 
 But now hath Christ been raised from the 
 dead the first fruits of them that are asleep. 
 
 He which raised up the Lord Jesus shall 
 raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present 
 us with you. 
 
 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not 
 
J^ESURRECTION. 83 
 
 all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a 
 moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
 trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the 
 dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall 
 be changed. For this corruptible must put 
 on incorruption, and this mortal must put on 
 immortality. But when this corruptible shall 
 have put on incorruption, and this mortal 
 shall have put on immortality, then shall come 
 to pass the saying that is written. Death is 
 swallowed up in victory. O death, where is 
 thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? 
 The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin 
 is the law: but thanks be to God, which giveth 
 us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stead- 
 fast, unmovable, always abounding in the 
 work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that 
 your labor is not vain in the Lord. 
 
 Now the God of peace, who brought again 
 
 « 
 
 from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep 
 with the blood of the eternal covenant, even 
 our Lord Jesus, make you perfect in every 
 
84 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 good thing to do his will, working in us that 
 which is well-pleasing in his sight, through 
 Jesus Christ; to whom he the glory for ever 
 and ever. Amen. 
 
 Passages quoted — Acts xiii, 30-37 ; 2 Tim. ii, 8 ; 
 Rom. xiv, 9 ; i Cor. xv, 3-8 ; i Cor. xv, 20 ; 2 Cor. iv, 14 ; 
 I Cor. XV, 51-58; Heb. xiii, 20, 21. 
 
Chapter XIII. 
 
 ASCENSION AND EXALTATION OF CHRIST. 
 HEREFORE he saith, When he as- 
 
 w 
 
 cended on high, he led captivity cap- 
 tive, and gave gifts unto men. 
 
 Now this, He ascended, what is it but that 
 he also descended into the lower parts of the 
 earth? He that descended is the same also 
 that ascended far above all the heavens, that 
 he might fill all things. 
 
 The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 
 Father of glory, according to that working 
 of the strength of his might which he wrought 
 in Christ, raised him from the dead, and 
 made him to sit at his right hand in the heav- 
 enly places, far above all rule, and authority, 
 and power, and dominion, and every name 
 that is named, not only in this world but also 
 in that which is to come: and he put all things 
 in subjection under his feet and gave him to 
 
 be head over all things to the church, which 
 
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86 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL, 
 
 is his body, the fulhiess of him that filleth all 
 in all. 
 
 Wherefore God also highly exalted him 
 and gave unto him the name which is above 
 every name; that in the name of Jesus every 
 knee should bow, of things in heaven and 
 things on earth and things under the earth, 
 and that every tongue should confess that 
 Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the 
 Father. 
 
 I am in a strait betwixt the two, having 
 the desire to depart and to be with Christ, for 
 it is very far better. 
 
 For God appointed us not unto wrath, but 
 unto the obtaining of salvation through our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, 
 whether we wake or sleep, we should live to- 
 gether with him. 
 
 Whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do 
 all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving 
 thanks to God the Father through him. 
 
 Passages quoted — Eph. iv, 8, 9, 10; Eph, i, 17, 19, 20, 
 22; Phil, ii, 9, 10, 11; Phil, i, 23 ; i Thess. v, 9; Col. 
 iii, 17. 
 
Chapter XIV. 
 
 INTERCESSION IN HEAVEN. 
 
 THERE is one God, one mediator also be- 
 tween God and men, himself man, Christ 
 Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. 
 
 The Lord sware and will not repent him- 
 self, 
 
 Thou art a priest for ever. 
 He, because he abideth forever, hath his priest- 
 hood unchangeable. Wherefore also he is able 
 to save to the uttermost them that draw near 
 unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth 
 to make intercession for them. 
 
 For such a high priest became us, holy, 
 guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, 
 and made higher than the heavens; who need- 
 eth not daily, like those high priests, to offer 
 up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then 
 for the sins of the people: for this he did once 
 for all, when he ofTered up himself. For the 
 law appointed men high priests, having in- 
 firmity; but the word of the oath, which was 
 
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88 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 after the law, appointed a son perfected for 
 evermore. 
 
 Now in the things which we are saying the 
 chief point is this: We have such a high priest, 
 who sat down on the right hand of the throne 
 of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of 
 the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, 
 which the Lord pitched, not man. For every 
 high priest is appointed to offer both gifts 
 and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that 
 this high priest also have somewhat to offer. 
 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a 
 priest at all, seeing there are those who offer 
 the gifts according to the law; who serve that 
 which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly 
 things, even as Moses is warned of God when 
 he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, 
 saith he, that thou make all things according 
 to the pattern that was shewed thee in the 
 mount. But now hath he obtained a ministry 
 the more excellent, by how much also he is 
 the mediator of a better covenant, which hath 
 been enacted upon better promises. For if 
 that first covenant had been faultless, then 
 
INTERCESSION IN HEAVEN. 89 
 
 would no place have been sought for a second. 
 For finding fault with them, he saith, 
 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, 
 That I will make a new covenant with the 
 
 house of Israel and with the house of 
 
 Judah; 
 Not according to the covenant that I made 
 
 with their fathers 
 In the day that I took them by the hand 
 
 to lead them forth out of the land of 
 
 Egypt; 
 For they continued not in my covenant, 
 And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 
 For this is the covenant that I will make 
 
 with the house of Israel 
 After those days, saith the Lord; 
 I will put my laws into their mind, 
 And on their heart also will I write them: 
 And I will be to them a God, 
 And they shall be to me a people: 
 And they shall not teach every man his fel- 
 low-citizen, 
 And every man his brother, saying. Know 
 
 the Lord: 
 
90 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 For all shall know me, 
 
 From the least to the greatest of them. 
 
 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, 
 
 And their sins will I remember no more. 
 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made 
 the first old. But that which is becoming old 
 and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away. 
 
 But Christ having come a high priest of the 
 good things to come, through the greater and 
 more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, 
 that is to say, not of this creation, nor yet 
 through the blood of goats and calves, but 
 through his own blood, entered in once for 
 all into the holy place, having obtained eternal 
 redemption. For if the blood of goats and 
 bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling 
 them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the 
 cleanness of the flesh: how much more shall 
 the blood of Christ, who through the eternal 
 Spirit offered himself without blemish unto 
 God, cleanse your conscience from dead works 
 to serve the living God? And for this cause 
 he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a 
 death having taken place for the redemption 
 
INTERCESSION IN HEAVEN. 9 1 
 
 of the transgressions that were under the first 
 covenant, they that have been called may re- 
 ceive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 
 For where a testament is, there must of neces- 
 sity be the death of him that made it. For a 
 testament is of force where there hath been 
 death : for doth it ever avail while he that made 
 it liveth? Wherefore even the first covenant 
 hath not been dedicated without blood. For 
 when every commandment had been spoken 
 by Moses unto all the people according to the 
 law, he took the blood of the calves and the 
 goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, 
 and sprinkled both the book itself, and all the 
 people, saying. This is the blood of the cove- 
 nant which God commanded to you-ward. 
 Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels 
 of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner 
 with the blood. And according to the law, I 
 may almost say, all things are cleansed with 
 blood, and apart from shedding of blood there 
 is no remission. 
 
 It was necessary therefore that the copies 
 of the things in the heavens should be cleansed 
 
92 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 with these; but the heavenly things them- 
 selves with better sacrifices than these. For 
 Christ entered not into a holy place made with 
 hands, like in pattern to the true; but into 
 heaven itself, now to appear before the face 
 of God for us: nor yet that he should offer 
 himself often; as the high priest entereth into 
 the holy place year by year with blood not 
 his own; else must he often have suffered since 
 the foundation of the world: but now once at 
 the end of the ages hath he been manifested 
 to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 
 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men 
 once to die, and after this cometh judgment; 
 so Christ also, having been once offered to 
 bear the sins of many, shall appear a second 
 time, apart from sin, to them that wait for 
 him, unto salvation. 
 
 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to 
 enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 
 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new 
 and living way, through the veil, that is to 
 say, his flesh; and having a great priest over 
 the house of God; let us draw near with a true 
 
INTERCESSION IN HEAVEN. 93 
 
 heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts 
 sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our 
 body washed with pure water: let us hold fast 
 the confession of our hope that it waver not; 
 for he is faithful that promised. 
 
 Having therefore a great high priest, who 
 hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the 
 Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 
 For we have not an high priest that can not 
 be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; 
 but one that hath been in all points tempted 
 like as we are, yet without sin. 
 
 When he had offered one sacrifice for sins 
 for ever, [he] sat down on the right hand of 
 God; from henceforth expecting till his ene- 
 mies be made the footstool of his feet. 
 
 Who is he that shall condemn? It is Christ 
 Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised 
 from the dead, who is at the right hand of 
 God, who also maketh intercession for us. 
 
 Passages quoted — i Tim. ii, 5 ; Heb. vii, 21 ; Heb. 
 vii, 24; Pleb. vii, 26-28; Heb. viii, 1-13; Heb. ix, 11-28; 
 Heb. X, 19-23 ; Heb. iv, 14-15 ; Heb. x, 12 ; Rom. viii, 34. 
 
Chapter XV. 
 
 CHRIST COMING AGAIN. 
 
 NT OW we beseech you, brethren, touching 
 ^ ^ the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 and our gathering together unto him; to the 
 end that ye be not quickly shaken from your 
 mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or 
 by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the 
 day of the Lord is now present; let no man be- 
 guile you in any wise; for it will not be, ex- 
 cept the falling away come first; and the man 
 of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, he that 
 opposeth and exalteth himself against all that 
 is called God or that is worshiped; so that he 
 sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself 
 forth as God. 
 
 If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, 
 even so them also that are fallen asleep in 
 Jesus will God bring with him. For this we 
 say unto you by the word of the Lord, that 
 we that are alive, that are left unto the com- 
 ing of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them 
 94 
 
CHRIST COMING AGAIN. 95 
 
 that are fallen asleep. For the Lord himself 
 shall descend from heaven with a shout, with 
 the voice of the archangel, and with the trump 
 of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 
 then w^e that are alive, that are left, shall to- 
 eether wdth them be caught up in the clouds, 
 to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we 
 ever be with the Lord. 
 
 Yourselves know perfectly that the day of 
 the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 
 When they are saying, Peace and safety; then 
 sudden destruction cometh upon them, as tra- 
 vail upon a w^oman with child ; and they shall 
 in no wise escape. 
 
 Our citizenship is in heaven; from whence 
 also we w^ait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus 
 Christ; who shall fashion anew the body of our 
 humiliation, that it may be conformed to the 
 body of his glory, according to the working 
 whereby he is able to subject all things unto 
 
 himself. 
 
 When Christ, w4io is our life, shall be mani- 
 fested, then shall ye also with him be mani- 
 fested in glory. 
 
96 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 What is our hope, or joy, or crown of 
 glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord 
 Jesus at his coming? The coming of our Lord 
 Jesus with all his saints. 
 
 To wait for his Son from heaven, w4iom 
 he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which 
 delivereth us from the wrath to come. 
 
 Then shall be revealed the lawless one, 
 whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the 
 breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by 
 the manifestation of his coming; even he, 
 whose coming is according to the working of 
 Satan with all power and signs and lying won- 
 ders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness 
 for them that are perishing. 
 
 At the revelation of the Lord Jesus from 
 heaven with the angels of his power in flaming 
 fire, rendering vengeance to them that know 
 not God, and to them that obey not the gos- 
 pel of our Lord Jesus: who shall suffer punish- 
 ment, even eternal destruction from the face 
 of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 
 when he shall come to be glorified in his 
 saints, and to be marveled at in all them that 
 
CHRIST COMING AGAIN. 07 
 
 believed (because our testimony unto you was 
 believed) in that day. 
 
 Looking for the blessed hope and appear- 
 ing of the glory of our great God and Savior 
 Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he 
 might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify 
 unto himself a people for his own possession, 
 zealous of good works. 
 
 He which began a good work in you will 
 perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. 
 
 So Christ also, having been once offered to 
 bear the sins of many, shall appear a second 
 time, apart from sin, to them that wait for 
 him, unto salvation. 
 
 The testimony of Christ was confirmed in 
 you: so that ye come behind in no gift; wait- 
 ing for the revelation of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ; who shall also confirm you unto the 
 end, that ye may be unreprovable in the day 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, 
 through whom ye were called into the fellow- 
 ship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 Yet a very little while, 
 
 7 
 
gS THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 He that cometh shall come, and shall not 
 tarry. 
 
 There is laid up for me the crown of right- 
 eousness, which the Lord, the righteous 
 Judge, shall give me at that day; and not only 
 to me, but also to all them that have loved his 
 appearing. 
 
 Keep the commandment, without spot, 
 without reproach, until the appearing of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ: which in its own time he 
 shall show, who is the blessed and only Poten- 
 tate, the King of kings and Lord of lords; 
 who only hath immortality, dwelling in light 
 unapproachable ; whom no man hath seen, nor 
 can see; to whom be honor and power eternal. 
 Amen. 
 
 Passages quoted — 2 Thess. ii, 1-4; i Thess. iv, 14-17; 
 I Thess. V, 2, 3; Phil, iii, 21 ; Col. iii, 4; i Thess. ii, 19; 
 I Thess. i, 10; 2 Thess. ii, 8-10; 2 Thess, i, 7-10; Titus 
 ii, 13, 14; Phil, i, 6; Heb. ix, 28; i Cor. i, 7-9; Heb. x, 
 37; 2 Tim. iv, 8; i Tim. vi, 14-16. 
 
Chapter XVI. 
 
 JUDGMENT AND THE END. 
 
 /^^ OD hath appointed a day in the which 
 ^^ he will judge the world in righteousness 
 by the man whom he hath ordained. 
 
 We must all be made manifest before the 
 judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may 
 receive the things done in the body, accord- 
 ing to what he hath done, whether it be good 
 or bad. 
 
 It is appointed unto men once to die, and 
 after this cometh judgment. The righteous 
 judgment of God, who will render to every 
 man according to his works: to them that by 
 patience in well-doing seek for glory and 
 honor and incorruption, eternal life: but unto 
 them that are factious, and obey not the truth, 
 but obey unrighteousness, shall he wrath and 
 indignation, tribulation and anguish, upon 
 every soul of man that worketh evil, of the 
 Jew first, and also of the Greek; but glory and 
 honor and peace to every man that worketh 
 
 99 
 
lOO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL. 
 
 good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek: 
 for there is no respect of persons with God. 
 For as many as have sinned without law shall 
 also perish without law: and as many as have 
 sinned under law shall be judged by law; for 
 not the hearers of a law are just before God, 
 but the doers of a law shall be justified: for 
 when Gentiles which have no law do by nature 
 the things of the law, these, having no law, 
 are a law unto themselves; in that they shew 
 the work of the law written in their hearts, 
 their conscience bearing witness therewith, 
 and their thoughts one with another accusing 
 or else excusing them; in the day when God 
 shall judge the secrets of men, according to 
 my gospel, by Jesus Christ. 
 
 Ye see the day drawing nigh. For if we 
 sin willfully after that we have received the 
 knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no 
 more a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful 
 expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of 
 fire which shall devour the adversaries. A 
 man that hath set at nought Moses' law died 
 without compassion on the word of two or 
 
JUDGMENT AND THE END. lor 
 
 three witnesses: of how much sorer punish- 
 ment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, 
 who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, 
 and hath counted the blood of the covenant, 
 \vherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, 
 and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace? 
 For w^e know him that saith. Vengeance be- 
 longeth unto me, I will recompence. And 
 agam, The Lord shall judge his people. It is 
 a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the liv- 
 ing God. 
 
 We are not of them that draw back unto 
 perdition. 
 
 Alexander the coppersmith did me much 
 evil: the Lord will render to him according 
 to his works. 
 
 The Lord will deliver me from every evil 
 work, and will save me unto his heavenly 
 kingdom: to whom be the glory for ever and 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 I charge thee in the sight of God, and of 
 Christ Jesus, who shall judge the quick and 
 the dead, and by his appearing and his king- 
 dom; preach the word. 
 
I02 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL, 
 
 Christ loved the church and gave himself 
 up for it; that he might sanctify it, having 
 cleansed it by the washing of water with the 
 word, that he might present the church to 
 himself a glorious church, not having spot' or 
 wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should 
 be holy, and without blemish. 
 
 Then cometh the end, when he shall de- 
 liver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; 
 when he shall have abolished all rule and all 
 authority and power. For he must reign till 
 he hath put all his enemies under his feet. 
 The last enemy that shall be abolished is 
 death. 
 
 Passages quoted — Acts xvii, 31 ; 2 Cor. v, 10 ; Heb. 
 ix, 27; Rom. ii, 6-16 ; Heb. x, 25-31 ; Heb. x, 39; 2 Tim. 
 iv, 14 ; 2 Tim. iv, 18 ; 2 Tim. iv, i, 2 ; Eph. v, 25-27 ; 
 I Cor. XV, 24-26. 
 
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