...against what he had a«serted in th« foregoing chapter, and the tiret objection runs thus: ТЖ7"НАТ advantage then hath the Jew ? or what profit is there of circumcision ? 2 Much every way : chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. The sense is...

...been endangered, and becomes himself the advocate of Jewish distinctions, so far as they were valid. " What advantage then hath the Jew ? or what profit is there of circumcision? — MUCH EVERY WAY." This is precisely the course of moderation ; — this is that gathering up of an argument on all sides,...

...all men, he inquires; "What advantage then hath the jew I or what profit is there of circumcision1 much every way: CHIEFLY, BECAUSE THAT UNTO THEM WERE COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF GOD." Here, I ask, if the inward light be a paramount rule, where after all is the demonstrated advantage,...

...London, Rome, or Jerusalem. " The Jews," says he, (and much more the Christians,) " have much advantage every way, chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." The heathens have only the light of God's works, the light of God's providence, the light of reason,...

...also in religious distinctions and immunities. They had, as the apostle shows, " much the advantage every way : chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God ; " — a divine revelation of his will, which was a favor beyond what had been conferred on any other...

...by the law, 28 but all, without difference, by faith only : 31 ana yet the law is not abolished. 1 hich * are ? 2 Much every way : chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. Gentiles, but...

...assembly. He preached on the morning of the following Sunday, at the City-Road chapel, on Rom. iii, 1,2: " What advantage then hath the Jew ? or what profit...that unto them were committed the oracles of God." The principal subject of this discourse -was, the benefit arising from the possession of the Holy Scriptures,...

...other parts he testifies of circumcision, Romans, 3rd chapter, Istatid2nd verse:—"What ad vantage then hath the Jew, or what profit is there of circumcision...that unto them were committed the oracles of God." The question is. What is the oracle of God ? the Evangelist John Istc. 14th v. declares, that the oracle...

...with you. Rom. iii. 1, 2.—What advantage then hath the Jew ? or what profit 18 REMINISCENCES OF * is there of circumcision! Much every way: chiefly,...that unto them were committed the oracles of God. Lukexi. 13.—If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children : how much more...

...Israel ; who is like unto thee 1 " And what advantage, then, had the Jew ? and what profit was there in circumcision ? Much every way : chiefly, because that unto them were committed the Oracles of God. The Oracles" of God ! — which not merely explain the cause of all sorrow and of death itself, but...