observances. In their eyes the gospel as preached by Paul was simplicity indeed; so much so that they looked upon it as a child’s conception of the philosophy of the universe, which was puerile for men of mature minds. But he who knew this gospel in all its grandeur, as few other men have ever known it, speaks here of being “filled with the knowledge of God’s will;” and he uses a superlative in the place of a word which the Gnostics were very fond of. They boasted of “Gnosis”—“knowledge.” He says,