the end for which God created man, the contents of that hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory (1 Cor. 2:7). It is not, then, as is so often thought, the union of Christians with each other which is here spoken of, but above all that union which is its foundation, the union of the body of believers with Christ, and through Him with God. The Lord was contemplating the society of believers which would, by means of their preaching, gather around the apostles, and in which He
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