58 HORiE PAULINtE. 



hath God cast away his people," that is, wholly and entire- 

 ly? " God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed 

 of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast 

 away his people which he foreknew f' and follows this 

 thought, throughout the whole of the eleventh chapter, in a 

 series of reflections calculated to soothe the Jewish converts, 

 as well as to procure from their Gentile brethren respect to 

 the Jewish institution. Wow all this is perfectly natural 

 (n a real St. Paul writing to real converts, it is what anxi- 

 ety to bring them over to his persuasion would naturally 

 produce ; but there is an earnestness and a personality, if I 

 may so call it, in the manner, which a cold forgery, I appre- 

 hend, would neither have conceived nor supported. 



