Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. There is weighty evidence in favour of 'For' here, in place of "Therefore;" and most critics regard it as the true reading-though we think incorrectly. х Oun (G3767) is found in B C D***-a corrector of about the 9th or 10th centuries-K L, and many cursives, both Syriac versions, and most Greek fathers; but gar (G1063) is found in 'Aleph (') A D E F G, and some cursives, some copies of the Old Latin, and the Vulgate. This is strong testimony; but internal evidence (by which we mean here the connection of the train of thought) seems to us to pronounce for the received reading. Tischendorf adheres to the Received Text: Griesbach, Lachmann, and Tregelles adopt gar (G1063).] The following view of the train of thought will show why we deem the received reading, "Therefore," more suitable: 'It is the unavoidable tendency of dependence upon our own works, less or more, for acceptance with God, to beget a spirit of "boasting." But that God should encourage such a spirit in sinners, by any procedure of His, is incredible. This, therefore, stamps falsehood upon every form of justification by works, whereas the doctrine that-manifestly and entirely excludes "boasting;" and this is the best evidence of its truth.'
Our faith receives a righteousness That makes the sinner just-
Inference Second: This Way of Salvation, and No Other, Is Adapted alike to Jew and Gentile (Romans 3:29-30)