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Ver. 11. According to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust—not the glorious gospel, taking ôῆò äüîçò as a qualitative genitive, equivalent to å ̓́ íãïîïò (see Winer, Gr. § 34. 6). The gospel of God’s glory is the gospel which peculiarly displays His glory,—unfolds this to the view of men by showing the moral character and perfections of God exhibited as they are nowhere else in the person and the work of Christ. Quite similarly, the apostle speaks in 2Co_4:4 of “the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God;” and elsewhere of “the riches of God’s glory toward the vessels of mercy,” or of the power which He gives them, “according to the riches of His glory” (Rom_9:23; Eph_3:16). By presenting the gospel thus as the manifestation of God’s glory, and the God from whom it comes as the blessed God, the apostle evidently intends to make it known as adequate to all the wants of men’s spiritual natures, and the purposes of their salvation. But while the meaning of the words is thus clear, what precisely is the nature of the connection between them and the preceding context? What does the apostle mean to tell us is according to his gospel? Is it simply the sound doctrine spoken of immediately before? So some have thought (as Theophylact, Bengel); but in that case there must have been required a connecting link with the äéäáóêáëßᾳ , such as ôῇ êáôὰ ôὸ åὐáã . (as is done in D; and Theophylact has the gloss, ôῇ ïõ ̓́ óç ͅ ôὸ åὐáã .). But there being no such connecting particle, we are obliged to refer this concluding statement to the whole of the preceding passage; and so the meaning comes to be, that the assertion about the law being made rather for restraining the wicked, than for establishing and perfecting the righteous, is according to the gospel of the grace of God with which the apostle was entrusted.