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| Chapter III.—Expressions of personal unworthiness.
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Chapter III.—Expressions of personal
unworthiness.
These things, brethren, I write to you
concerning righteousness, not because I take anything upon myself, but
because ye have invited me to do so. For neither I, nor any other such
one, can come up to the wisdom357
of the blessed and glorified Paul. He, when among you, accurately and
stedfastly taught the word of truth in the presence of those who were
then alive. And when absent from you, he wrote you a letter,358
| 358 The form is plural, but
one Epistle is probably meant. [So, even in English,
“letters” may be classically used for a single letter, as we
say “by these presents.” But even we might speak of St. Paul
as having written his Epistles to us; so the Epistles to
Thessalonica and Corinth might more naturally still be referred to
here]. | which, if you carefully study, you will find to be the
means of building you up in that faith which has been given you, and
which, being followed by hope, and preceded by love towards God, and
Christ, and our neighbour, “is the mother of us all.”359
For if any one be inwardly
possessed of these graces, he hath fulfilled the command of
righteousness, since he that hath love is far from all sin.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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