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, were inſufficient. Therefore, in none of theſe he gloried. —Which reminds me of the ſecond enquiry.

II. In what the apoſtle did glory. -He gloried in a croſs. Strange! What ſo ſcandalous as a croſs? On a croſs rebellious ſlaves were executed. The croſs was execrable among men, and accurſed even by God, Gal. iii. 13. Yet the apoſtle glories in the croſs.- Crucifixion not being uſed among us, the expreſſion does not ſound ſo harſh; neither is the idea so horrid. But to the ear of a Galatian, it conveyed much the ſame meaning, as if the apoſtle had gloried in a halter; gloried in the gallows, gloried in a gibbet.