Biblical Commentary on the New Testament: Adapted Especially for Preachers and Students (Classic Reprint)

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For just as Philo, and other Jews, who lived entirely amongst Greeks, as well as the earlier Fathers of the Church (as, for in stance, Justin Martyr), regarded the better men amongst the Gentiles as by no means excluded from the blessings of the Divine Word, the Giver of the heavenly powers of holiness and the knowledge of God; even SO did St Paul recognise Within the heathen world a spiritual Israel; that is, spirits nobler than the rest, who thirsted after truth and righteousness (rom. Ii. 14, I5); and whom he sought, through the preaching of the gospel, to lead to the covenants of promise. Even the birth, therefore, of the Apostle, and the influences under which he grew up, were all SO ordered by the providence Of God, as best to train him for the teacher of the Gentiles (galat. I. For though at first sight it might appear that his connexion with the sect Of the Pharisees would not conduce to that freedom of spirit which he afterwards attained to, yet, on closer considera tion, we shall, discern in this very circumstance the wisdom of a directing Providence.

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