Let us not misuse the passage by reading into it a vain hope of an indiscriminate actual salvation, at the last, of all individuals of the race; a predestinarian hope for which Scripture not only gives no valid evidence, but utters against it what at least sound like the most urgent and unequivocal of its warnings. The context here, as we saw in another connexion just now, has to do rather with masses than with persons; with Gentiles and Jews in their common characteristics rather than taken as individuals. Yet let us draw from the words, with reverent boldness, a warrant to our faith wholly to trust the Eternal to be, even in the least fathomable of His dealings, true to Himself, true to eternal Love, whatever be the action He shall take. Here the Apostle's voice, as we seem to listen to it, pauses for a moment, as he passes into unspoken thoughts of awe and faith. He has now given out his prophetic burthen, telling us Gentiles how great has been the sin of Israel, but how great also is Israel's privilege, and how sure his coming mercy. And behind this grand special revelation there still rise on his soul those yet more majestic forms of truth which he has led us to look upon before; the Righteousness of God, the justifying grace, the believing soul's dominion over sin, the fulness of the Spirit, the coming glory of the saints, the emancipated Universe, the eternal Love. What remains, after this mighty process of spiritual discoveries, but to adore? Listen, as he speaks again, and again the pen moves upon the paper: [Sidenote: Ver. 33.] =Oh depth of wealth of God's wisdom and knowledge too! How past all searching are His judgments, and past all tracking are His ways!= [Sidenote: Ver. 34.] ="For who ever knew the Lord's mind? Or who ever proved His counsellor?"[205]= [Sidenote: Ver. 35.] =Or who ever first gave to Him, and requital shall be made to the giver (αὐτῷ)?= [Sidenote: Ver. 36.] =Because out of Him, and through Him, and unto Him, are all things[206]: to Him be the glory, unto the ages. Amen.=