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 praise cannot be passed by; for she is loved, washed, and will reign in nearness to God and his Father.

To the world, and to the Jews, His coming will be sorrow. Here, then, we find the place of all these parties at the outset. This is its form, then, —the perfection of fulness of the Spirit before the throne: Jesus known as faithful, risen, to reign, all on earth. The Church, meanwhile, knowing its own position in this, therefore says, not Our Father, but His—His God and Father: for so it is. The announcement of what the purport of Jesus’ coming is to the world follows thereon, completing what He is and was on earth, the Church’s portion thereby, and the world’s at His coming. In ver. 8