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allusions that must speak to many of my readers ; and further to 

 identify them, he actually employs a still more technical phraseology, 

 and commences (v. 10.) by alluding to himself <*>c <ro(f>og apyjLTtKTwv 

 " as a wise master mason," rendered in the established version •• as a 

 wise master builder." On another occasion he refers to that Great 

 Architect of the Universe, whom he declares ra iravra Karaar- 

 Kevacrag, hath " built all things," (Heb. iii. 4.) And again he emphati- 

 cally declares, that it was by revelation that was made known to him 

 the true purport of these mysteries (fcara airoKaXvipiv eyvvpwe pot 

 to fj,vGT7)piov. Ephes. iii. 3.) '* the revelation of a mystery which had been 

 kept in silence (asaiy rifitvov ) since the world began." (Rom. xvi. 25.) 

 He asserts, that he was peculiarly sent to enlighten all men upon what 

 this " fellowship of the mystery" really is, (^wrtVai iravrag Tig rj 

 Koiviovia tov pvcmipiov. Ephes. iii. 9.) And a little further he gives a 

 climax to his spiritualising interpretation of this " fellowship of the 

 craft" by picturing its consequent to be a comely structure harmoniously 

 joined together, and cemented by the secretion of every joint (oia 

 ira<jt)Q acj>rig Trig em^opriyiag) in the proportionate and individual 

 action of each separate part, which thus progresses £'C oiKocopriv 

 zavTOv svayawy to the building, (literally, house building) of itself in 

 Love. (Ephes. iv. 16.) Thus closing with the watch- word of those 

 mysteries to which he referred.* 



I shall have again occasion to revert to this portion of my subject, 

 and place beyond a doubt not only the intimate acquaintance that Paul 

 had with these mysteries, but likewise shew that his writings prove 



* What I have advanced here is simply thus : that not only was Paul initiated into 

 those antient and secret mysteries, which were associations of brotherhood ; but that 

 he wanted to point out that their inculcations of fellowship and love, and of the per- 

 formance of high morality were in themselves insufficient; that they required the 

 vivifying Grace of that Being, whose faith he had adopted, and that this mental edi- 

 fice required to be built up, not upon one's own foundation, but upon the foundation, 

 and in the spirit of Him, whose Apostle he was. Thus he declares, that the true view 

 of these mysteries had not till then been pointed out. Indeed the whole circumstance 

 is one of many instances exemplifying Paul's transcendent qualities as a Pleader; 

 wherever he may be, whoever he may be addressing, he invariably seizes upon some 

 existing peculiarity, some belief identified with local predilections, on which to fix the 

 consecutive glories of the magnificent cause he was advocating ; and thus disarming 

 suspicion, and unopposed by prejudices in the outset, he proceeds in one train of 

 powerful induction, to enunciate the startling truths of which he was possessed* 



