[54] ‘the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up’ ib. 10. But compare 1 Cor. iii 13 to 15.
[55] The omission is due to contempt of dumb creatures, see 1 Cor. ix 9.
[56] ‘It is in closest union with Him that we live and move and have our being’ Acts xvii 28; ‘one God and Father of all ... rules over all, acts through all, and dwells in all’ Eph. iv 6.
[57] ‘God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?’ Heb. xii 7.
[58] ‘for those who love God all things are working together for good’ Rom. viii 28.
[59] ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself’ 2 Cor. v 19; cf. Col. i 20.
[60] ‘these men are without excuse, for ... their senseless minds were darkened ... in accordance with their own depraved cravings’ Romans i 20 to 24. The point is brought out still more plainly by a writer of the opposite party, James i 13 to 15.
[61] ‘ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world, the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare’ Eph. vi 12.
[62] ‘let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ’ ib. v 20.
[63] ‘it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins’ Hebr. x 4.