...to them appertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose were the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever, would have excluded the Gentiles from such blessings...

...this feeling when we remember that their nation had been the elected and avowed favourites of heaven. To them were committed the oracles of God. To them...the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came. But by a continued course of infatuated wickedness they had alienated their God, and rendered...

...against the ancient people to whom, however deeply branded with the guilt and debasement of unbelief, had "pertained the adoption and the glory and the covenants,...whose were the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the ilesh, Christ came." He learned now, for the iirst time, that there were some Jews at least, who had...