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The life and work of St. Paul

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SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. 409<br />

with which he had been charged in changing his plan? Did the "Yes, yes "<strong>of</strong><br />

his purposes mean much the same thing as " No, no," like the mere shifting feebleness<br />

<strong>of</strong> an aimless man F 1<br />

Well, if they choso to say this <strong>of</strong> him as a man, at any<br />

rate, there was one emphatic " Yes," one- unalterable fixity <strong>and</strong> affirmation about<br />

him, <strong>and</strong> that was his preaching <strong>of</strong> Christ. Jesus Christ, the Son <strong>of</strong> God, preached<br />

by him <strong>and</strong> Silvanus <strong>and</strong> Timotheus, had proved Himself to be not " Yes " <strong>and</strong><br />

"No; "but in Him was God's infinite " Yes," <strong>and</strong> therefore also the Christian's<br />

everlasting Amen to all God's promises. 2 Ho who confirmed all <strong>of</strong> them alike into<br />

the Anointed (efr xP lc " ro *')> an^ anointed them (xpi'

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