and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:

Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.