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  11:36  Ga 1:4,5  Eph 3:20,21  Php 4:20  1Ti 1:17  6:16  2Ti 4:18 
  Heb 13:15,21  1Pe 2:5  5:10,11  2Pe 3:18  Re 1:5,6  4:9-11  5:9-14 
  Re 7:10-12  19:1-6 
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  11:33,34  Ps 147:5  Eph 1:7,8  3:10  Col 2:2,3  Jude 1:25 
 
 
 
         CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.
 
 The Epistle to the Romans is "a writing," says Dr. Macknight,
 "which, for sublimity and truth of sentiment, for brevity and
 strength of expression, for regularity in its structure, but
 above all, for the unspeakable importance of the discoveries
 which it contains, stands unrivalled by any mere human
 composition, and as far exceeds the most celebrated productions
 of the learned Greeks and Romans, as the shining of the sun
 exceeds the twinkling of the stars."  "The plan of it is very
 extensive; and it is surprising to see what a spacious field of
 knowledge is comprised, and how many various designs, arguments,
 explications, instructions, and exhortations, are executed in so
 small a compass....The whole Epistle is to be taken in
 connection, or considered as one continued discourse; and the
 sense of every part must be taken from the drift of the whole.
 Every sentence, or verse, is not to be regarded as a distinct
 mathematical proposition, or theorem, or as a sentence in the
 book of Proverbs, whose sense is absolute, and independent of
 what goes before, or comes after:  but we must remember, that
 every sentence, especially in the argumentative part, bears
 relation to, and is dependent upon, the whole discourse, and
 cannot be rightly understood unless we understand the scope and
 drift of the whole; and therefore, the whole Epistle, or at
 least the eleven first chapters of it, ought to be read over at
 once, without stopping.  As to the use and excellency of this
 Epistle, I shall leave it to speak for itself, when the reader
 has studied and well digested its contents....This Epistle will
 not be difficult to understand, if our minds are unprejudiced,
 and at liberty to attend to the subject, and to the current
 scriptural sense of the words used.  Great care is taken to
 guard and explain every part of the subject; no part of it is
 left unexplained or unguarded.  Sometimes notes are written upon
 a sentence, liable to exception and wanting explanation, as ch.
 2:12-16.  Here the 13th and 15th verses are a comment upon the
 former part of it.  Sometimes are found comments upon a single
 word; as ch. 10:11-13.  The 12th and 13th verses are a comment
 upon [pas [,] every one, in the 11th.
 This Epistle displays a perspicuous brevity, as ch. 5:13, 14.
 For until the law sin was in the world, etc.  Surely never was
 there a greater variety of useful sentiments crowded into a
 smaller compass; and yet so skilfully, that one part very
 clearly explains another....It is by the Holy Spirit's
 influence, that the apostle has brought such a variety of
 arguments, instructions, and sentiments, all stated, proved, and
 sufficiently guarded, explained, and defended, within the limits
 of a letter; which has made it a magazine of the most real,
 extensive, useful, profitable, and divine knowledge.  The Jews
 are treated with great caution and tenderness....The transitions
 and advances to an ungrateful subject are very interesting; as
 ch. 2:1-17; 8:17.  Here is found complicated design, and while
 teaching one thing, gives us an opportunity of learning one or
 two more.  So ch. 13:1-8, is taught the duty of subjects, and at
 the same time magistrates are instructed in their duty, and the
 grounds of their authority.  The inspired writer never loses
 sight of his subject, and writes under a deep and lively sense
 of the truth and importance of the Gospel, as a man who clearly
 understood it, and in whose heart and affections it reigned far
 superior to all temporal considerations."

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