xliv.) in which the elder Church, one with us in deep continuity, tells her story of affliction, ="For Thy sake we are done to death all the day long; we have been reckoned,= estimated, =as sheep of slaughter."= Even so. [Sidenote: Ver. 37.] =But in these things, all of them, we more than conquer;= not only do we tread upon our foes; we spoil them, we find them occasions of glorious gain,[150] =through Him who loved us.= [Sidenote: Ver. 38.] =For I am sure that neither death, nor life,= life with its natural allurements or its bewildering toils, =nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,[151]= whatever Orders of being unfriendly to Christ and His saints the vast Unseen contains, =nor present things, nor things to come,= in all the boundless field of circumstance and contingency, =nor height, nor depth,= in the illimitable sphere of space, =nor any other creature,= no thing, no being, under the Uncreated One, =shall be able to sunder us,= "_us_" with an emphasis upon the word and thought (ἡμας χωρίσαι), =from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord=--from the eternal embrace wherein the Father embosoms the Son, and, in the Son, all who are one with Him. So once more the divine music rolls itself out into the blessed Name. We have heard the previous cadences as they came in their order; "Jesus our Lord, who was delivered because of our offences, and was raised again because of our justification" (iv. 25); "That grace might reign, through Jesus Christ our Lord" (v. 21); "The gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord" (vi. 23); "I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord" (vii. 25). Like the theme of a fugue it has sounded on, deep and high; still, always, "our Lord Jesus Christ," who is all things, and in all, and for all, to His happy believing members. And now all is gathered up into this. Our "Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption" (1 Cor. i. 33), the golden burthens of the third chapter, and the sixth, and the eighth, are all, in their living ultimate essence, "Jesus Christ our Lord." HE makes every truth, every doctrine of peace and holiness, every sure premiss and indissoluble inference, to be life as well as light. HE is pardon, and sanctity, and heaven. Here, finally, the Eternal Love is seen not as it were diffused into infinity, but gathered up wholly and for ever in Him. Therefore to be in Him is to be in It. It is to be within the clasp which surrounds the Beloved of the Father. * * * * *