The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 454

FAITH

414

Ye are saved by grace, not of yourselves, it is God's work," it would sound better. But first to say, " Ye are saved by grace," and then without adding anything new to repeat, "and that not of yourselves," is harsh and halting. And all the more so, since in the ninth verse it is repeated for the fourth and fifth Or,

if it

read, "

"not of works

time,

this is stiff

;

we

are His workmanship"

And

while

all

and forced, labored and superfluous, by adopting the

exegesis of the ancient expositors of the Christian Church

it

be-

For then it reads: " You means of faith. (Not as tho by this are saved by mere grace, by salvation of your would be partly not of means of faith the grace faith is not of yourselves, it is the grace no indeed not, for even that saved through faith, not of works, gift of God.) And, therefore, are His workmanship." lest any man should boast, for we But then this creates a parenthesis, which is perfectly true but even this is truly Pauline. St. Paul hears the objection, and refutes it again and again, even where he does not formulate the contrast.

comes

all at

once smooth and vigorous.

;

;

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