of justification—those whom God predestinates, and calls, and justifies, and glorifies. The term “elect” is, probably, equivalent here, as it is in some other parts of the New Testament, to ‘selected,’ or “called, according to God’s purpose;” for what the apostle says of them here, is not true of them as elect, in the ordinary sense of the term, as synonymous with predestinated; for, previously to their calling and justification, God’s law brings the same charge against them as against those who