DECEMBER 10TH, 1896

^[p. 127] DECEMBER 10TH, 1896

I am very thankful to have had my attention turned to Romans. I see that the epistle is not intended to give us the terms of the gospel, but to show to us God’s purpose in it, to bring the light of Himself into the soul of man. Hence in chapter 3 we have the righteousness, which is the foundation in the soul, and in chapter 4 it is faith (not works) which links the soul with the God of resurrection and our Lord Jesus Christ, and in fact with the world to come, in which we have a footing, in “Christ raised for our justification”. Our justification has reference to God and to that world in which Christ is supreme, and hence we accept death here.