, coming
wholly out of His uncaused and sacred mercy, +on terms of our (_te_)
faith+, conditioned[15]

Ver. 10. to us by simply our accepting reliance; +in order to know
Him+, HIM, my Lord, with an intuition possible only to the soul which
accepts Him for its All; +and the power of His Resurrection+, as that
Resurrection assures His people of their justification (Rom. iv. 24,
25), and of their coming glory (1 Cor. xv. 20), and yet more as He, by
His life-giving Spirit, shed forth from Him the risen Head, lives His
"indissoluble life" (Heb. vii. 16) in His members; and +the partnership
of His sufferings+, that deep experience of union with Him which comes
through daily "taking up the cross," in His steps, for His sake, and in
His strength; growing into conformity (_summorthi-xomenos_, a present
participle) +with His Death+, drawn evermore into spiritual harmony
with Him who wrought my salvation out by an ineffable surrender

Ver. 11. of Himself to suffer; if +somehow I may arrive+, along the
appointed path of the believer's obedience, +at the resurrection which
is out from the dead+ (_ten exanastasin ten ex nekron_: so read); "that
blessed hope" for all who sleep in Him, when their whole existence,
redeemed and perfected, shall leave the world of "the dead" behind for
ever.

Here is a piece of consecutive rendering and paraphrase longer than
usual. And meanwhile the passage before us is one of extraordinary
fulness and richness, alike in its record of experience and its
teaching of eternal truths. But it seemed impossible to break into
fragments the glorious wholeness of the Apostle's thought and
utterance. And then, the utterance is so rich, so detailed, so
explanatory of itself, that I could not but feel that, for very much of
it at least, my best commentary was the closest rendering I could
offer, with a few brief suggestions by the way.

Drawing now to a close, I can only indicate, under one or two headings,
some main messages to the mind and soul.

i. I gather from the connexion of the passage, as we have traced it,
the supreme importance of a true joy in the Lord, a true personal sight
of "the King in His beauty," in order to our spiritual orthodoxy. Let
me quote again from the Prayer Book of the Moravians, from which I gave
one short extract in the last chapter. In their "Church Litany," among
the first suffrages, occur these petitions: "_From coldness to Thy
merits and death. From error and misun