epistle is written in the subdued style, except at the end,
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fill, yet alway rejoicin;; ; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having notliing, and yet possessing all things." ^ See him still burning : " ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened unto you, our lieart is enlarged," and so on ; it would be tedious to go through it all.
43. And in the same way, writing to the Eomans, he urges that the persecutions of this world should be overcome by charity, in assured reliance on the help of God. And he treats this subject with both power and beauty : " We know^," he says, " that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.
For w^hom He did foreknow. He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called ; and whom He called, them He also justified ; and whom He justified, them He also glorified. What shall w^e then say to these things ? If God be for us, who can be against us ? He that spared not His own
Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not witli Him also freely give us all things ? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth ; who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword ? (As it is wTitten, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long ; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him that loved us. For
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor deptli, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, wliich is in Christ
Jesus our Lord."
44. Again, in writing to the Galatians, although the whole epistle is written in the subdued style, except at the end, where it rises into a temperate eloquence, yet he interposes one passage of so much feeling that, notwithstanding the absence
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