God. This is why Jesus adds, “Because salvation is of the Jews.” That is, all true knowledge of God had its origin in the Jews, just as we have received from the Jews the very redeemer of the world, insofar as the flesh is concerned. “The law and the teaching of life came out from Zion, and the word from Jerusalem.” From the Jews the gospel has dispersed into the whole world. But even before the gospel, in no other people has the teaching of God publicly and clearly thrived. And it is very probable