[[19]] John i. 29.
[[20]] Matt. xxvi. 28; Luke xxii. 19; 1 Cor. xi. 24.
[[21]] Robertson-Smith, Religion of the Semites (Black, 1889), p. 418.
[[22]] Ps. l. 21; cf. Eccles. viii. 11.
[[23]] On some of the difficulties felt about the doctrine of the Atonement, see app. note D.
DIVISION II. § 2. CHAPTER IV.
The true seed of Abraham.
St. Paul has been repudiating the principle of justification by works of the law. To those with whom he had been brought up, this was in the highest degree to dishonour the Jewish law, and indeed the principle of divinely-given law at all. But in the last words of the previous chapter he refuses to admit this inference. 'God forbid that we should make law of none effect. Nay, we establish law.'