10. Another distinguishing feature of God’s love for us, whereby it is most commended, is, its gratuitousness; he did not love us by any way of return for a love beforehand shown him, thus challenging him to love us in turn. “Not as though,” might be more clearly rendered from the Greek, ουχ ὅτι, not that. “Because he hath first loved us,” even when we were his enemies by sin; “and sent his Son to be a propitiation,” may either mean, a victim of propitiation, or a propitiator “for our sins,” these