St. Paul the Apostle - A Biblical Portrait and a Mirror of the Manifold Grace of God #263354

And now I am bold to say, he adds, that I come with full hands; for they have been filled by the word of the Spirit, who has drawn after life the picture of the wonder ful man, whom to draw after Him has been my delight. It has appeared proper to the author, and rightly so, first, to complete the historical picture of his hero, (chapters I. In order, in the last four Chapters, (vii. To con centrate again all the sparks of light thus gathered, in the Man of Faith, and of Hope, and of Love and then, finally, to sum up all in the Man of the Church. If any should think that the author's partiality for this man of God has carried his praise and admiration of him beyond proper bounds, let him remember Christ's word: I am glorified in them. It was in this light only — under the constant deep sense of glorifying the Redeemer in the redeemed — that the author could venture, and has ven tured, to dip his pen so deeply into praise, and to draw in such glowing colours the picture of the man who has said of himself, By the grace of God I am what I am. One remark, however, I dare not shrink from making here. The author being one of those strict Lutherans who. For conscience' sake, separated from the National Church of Prussia,ale the reader will here and there meet with — no fondly cherished by the German Bible-reader, I shall prepare an edition of them for the English public.