upon the worth or worthlessness of your own and all other human experiences and motives, by your own too resolute decisions; for “every man shall have praise of God” (4:5). This “of God” is clearly the secret nerve of this whole (and perhaps not only this) section. The truth and the worth of the testimony of Christ lie in what in them happens to the man, happens from God; not what he is as man, nor what he makes of it, not in the word or the “gnosis” in man’s acceptance of it. “The Kingdom of God
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