Jude 1:25

Verse 25. To the only wise God our Savior.

He that guarded and guided us, even God, to him who is only wise that is, wise without deriving his wisdom from any other source than himself who conceived in his own infinite love the plan by which we are saved, and therefore our Savior be ascribed the glory of infinite perfection and majesty that is, honor throughout the entire universe, dominion and power, the right and authority to rule, both now and throughout eternity. Amen. Thus closes Jude's epistle, and while many grand and striking doxologies appear from the pen of the heroic Paul, it strikes me that nothing in the English language can be found that is equal to this one of Jude's in point of beauty, grandeur and sublimity.

We have now done.

The effort is unpretentious, the production humble. We have written with only one view before us, and that was to learn the mind of the Spirit. This, with prayerful patience, we pursued for many weary days. And now, with the earnest prayer to the Father of all mercies, that it may be in his hands an instrument for good, we commend it to all honest and thoughtful readers.