should be to increase that perfect faith which works by love and makes the life entire. When the writer adds “lacking nothing,” “in nothing left behind,” pointing by the word he employs to a race, perhaps he would intimate to us, that there might be danger of misinterpreting what he had written so as to signify that where a Hebrew had developed into a Christian there was nothing more to do. He knew that however far the racers had run, the race was not won while there remained any space uncovered.