unlike the first, it is not a proclamation of faith directed primarily to men, but a cry of praise addressed to God. That cry is “Abba! Father!” In the epistle to the Romans, we find that, after believers receive the Spirit, who bears inner witness to them that they are children of God, they cry to God as their Abba, or Father (Rom. 8:15–17). Or, as Paul writes elsewhere, “And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ ” (Gal. 4:6). Paul’s words
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