in verse 5 (“by grace have ye been saved”), is a reminder thrown in to keep before the reader the general teaching as to grace which underlies all the Apostle is saying. “And made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.” This form of expression, “the heavenly places,” we have already encountered. Here the whole spiritual universe is thought of as a unity, and believers are regarded as sitting side by side with Christ therein even in their present life. The effects of Christ’s