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The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith. Chapter 3 of the same Epistle, verses 16, 17, and following verse 22 and following, where there is a most beautiful ἀντίθεσις opposition. Therefore, he who will be occupied with these places will demonstrate the reason for the continuation, either by using the single word ἀντίθεσις opposition, thus: This passage is an ἀντίθεσις opposition.

Ἐξήγησις exposition is an easy explanation of an obscure thing or one stated too briefly, namely when it is either distributed into its parts, or the manner of the thing done is explained, or when that which had to be understood entirely, whether it precedes or also follows, is added and subjoined. Paul, in the Epistle to the Colossians 1, verse 22, when he had said that God had reconciled all things to Himself, subjoined the manner: In the body of his flesh. Romans 3: He had said before, There is none righteous, there is none that understandeth; but in verse 13, he describes the parts of that depravity and rebellion: Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips, etc. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Likewise, in the same chapter, verse 24, he had said, Men are justified freely, to which very brief sentence he subjoins an ἐξήγησις exposition: By his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, etc. Galatians 4, verse 9, he had said: Ye serve the elements: this he explains through an ἐξήγησις exposition: Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. Ephesians 4, verse 11: He had said, Christ, when He ascended, filled all things: Afterwards he interprets it: And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some,

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