Messianic Lord such resources for both peace of conscience and a life of noble love, love above all directed towards opponents and traducers, that Israel, looking on, with eyes however purblind with prejudice, should soon see a moral glory in the Church's face impossible to be hid, and be drawn as by a moral magnet to the Church's hope. Is it the fault of God (may He pardon the formal question, if it lacks reverence), or the fault of man, man carrying the Christian name, that facts have been so wofully otherwise in the course of history? It is the fault, the grievous fault, of us Christians. The narrow prejudice, the iniquitous law, the rigid application of exaggerated ecclesiastical principle, all these things have been man's perversion of the divine idea, to be confessed and deplored in a deep and interminable repentance. May the mercy of God awaken Gentile Christendom, in a manner and degree as yet unknown, to remember this our indefeasible debt to this people everywhere present with us, everywhere distinct from us;--the debt of _a life_, personal and ecclesiastical, so manifestly pure and loving in our Lord the Christ as to "move them to the jealousy" which shall claim Him again for their own. Then we shall indeed be hastening the day of full and final blessing, both for themselves and for the world. To that bright coming day the Apostle points us now, more directly than ever: [Sidenote: Ver. 12.] =But if their partial fall[190] be the world's wealth, and their lessening (ἥττημα),= their reduction, (a reduction in one aspect to a race of scattered exiles, in another to a mere remnant of "Israelites indeed,") =be the Gentiles' wealth,= the occasion by which "the unsearchable wealth of Messiah" (Eph. iii. 8) has been as it were forced into Gentile receptacles, =how much more their fulness,= the filling of the dry channel with its ample ideal stream, the change from a believing remnant, fragments of a fragmentary people, to a believing nation, reanimated and reunited? What blessings for "the world," for "the Gentiles," may not come through the vehicle of such an Israel? [Sidenote: Ver. 13.] =But[191] to you I speak, the Gentiles[192]= to you, because if I reach the Jews, in the way I mean, it must be through you. =So far indeed as I, distinctively I (ἐγώ), am the Gentiles' Apostle, I glorify my ministry= as such; I rejoice, Pharisee that I once was, to be devoted as no other Apostle is to a ministry for those whom I once thought of as of outcasts in religion. But I speak as your own Apostle, and to you, [Sidenote: Ver. 14.] =if perchance I may move the jealousy of my flesh and blood,[193] and may save some from amongst them,= by letting them as it were overhear what are the blessings of you Gentile Christians, and how it is the Lord's purpose to use those blessings as a magnet to wandering Israel.[194] His hope is that, through the Roman congregation, this glorious open secret will come out, as they meet