and to your children,” the Apostle testified;9 for to them belonged the gospel of the covenant. But to the Gentiles, who were “strangers from the covenants of promise,”10 was preached the gospel of grace—the gospel of the “mystery” truth, that grace was “reigning through righteousness unto eternal life.” The covenants and promises to the Patriarchs neither exhausted nor limited the grace of God to men. And though “grace came by Jesus Christ,” it was restrained during all His ministry on earth. “I