hath first given to him, &c. "Who hath laid Him under obligation?" (Cp. Job 35:7.) Such is no doubt the special reference here. It affects not only the discussions of cch. 9 11, but also (as does indeed the whole of this doxology) the whole great doctrinal Argument of the Epistle. No merit in man, in the matter of acceptance with God, is one of its deep foundation-truths.

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