If, while we seek-are found sinners; if, in seeking justification and salvation from Christ, not from the works of the law, we ourselves also; we who are Jews by nature as well as the Gentiles, are found sinners; found, after all our seeking, to be still in a state of guilt and condemnation: is therefore Christ the minister of sin? has he introduced a gospel which leaves those who trust in it still sinners under the condemnation of the law, so that they must turn again from Christ to the law for justification? Paul states the conclusion which must inevitably follow, if men are obliged to go back to the Jewish ceremonial for salvation, and then indignantly denies it in the words, God forbid; let it not be. Christ is not the minister of sin; but in turning away from him, I make myself a sinner, as he proceeds to show.

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