which he shed on us abundantly More closely in R.V. which he poured out upon us richly; the verb is the same, in the same tense, as in Acts 2:33, -he hath poured forth this"; the aorist there being used according to Greek idiom of what has just happened, here of God's objective act once for all, in which all His successive giving was potentially included.

through Jesus Christ our Saviour -As its channel and medium," Alford. -All the spiritual Blessings of the New birth, and of the New life, are represented as flowing down to us from and out of the one fountain and well-spring of the love of God the Father; and are all derived to us throughGod the Son, God and Man, Who is the sole channel of all grace to men; and are applied to us personally by the agency of God the Holy Ghost. All these Blessings come to us through the Incarnation of God the Son, Who took our nature and died for us, and washed us from our sins by His blood. And the Incarnation is, as it were, the point of contact at which the Channel of Filial Grace joins on to the Well-spring of Paternal Love. And the point of contact at which the living water of Grace, which flows from the Well-spring of Paternal Love through the Filial channel of Grace, is poured forth into our souls is in the laver of our New Birth in Baptism." Wordsworth.

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