exceedingly magnificent, I constantly bend my knees to the Father of Christ, whom every association, whether in the heavens or on earth calls its own Father and considers him to be Lord.”* And in the heavens there is no blood relationship, but there are many assemblies. Therefore, the expression for this reason, which he used above, shows he has turned back to what precedes, since it contains an account of the greatness of God’s grace concerning us. But here when he resumes his argument after what