This seems to be the better explanation. The sense is little different in either case; the heathen could not be said to glorify God in the Revelation, unless they had already been converted. 13. With the following sections compare Rom. 13:1–6; Eph. 5:21–6:9; Tit. 2; Col. 3:18–4:1. We need not suppose that there was any direct borrowing on either side; a few expressions are very similar, but there are also considerable differences. The topic is a missionary’s commonplace, as we see from its repetition
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