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 In due time, that true light shall lighten every man that has come into the world. In due time, it shall be " good tidings of great joy to al! people. " And in no other way can these scriptures be used without wresting. Paul carries out this line of argument with emphasis in Rom. 5 :iS, 19. He reasons that, as all men were condemned to death be- cause of Adam's transgression, so, also, Christ's righteous- ness, and obedience even unto death, have become a ground of justification; and that, as all lost life in the first Adam, so all, aside from personal demerit, may receive life by ac- cepting the second Adam.

Peter tells us that this restitution is spoken of by the mouth of all the holy prophets. (Ads 3:19-21.) They do all teach it. Ezekiel says of the valley of dry bones, " These bones are the whole house of Israel." And God says to Israel, "Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I ... shall put my spirit in you, and I shall place you in your own land ; then shall ye know- that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord." Ezek, 37:11-14.

To this Paul's words agree (Rom. 11:25, 26) "Blind- ness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles [the elecl: company, the bride of Christ] be come in j and so all Israel shall be saved/' or brought back from their cast-off condition ; for " God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." (Verse 2.) They were cast off from his favor while the bride of Christ was being selected, but will be re-instated when that work is accomplished. (Verses 28-33. ) The prophets are full of statements of how God will plant them again, and they shall be no more plucked up. " Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel,,. . I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them

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