Epistle.—l Cor. xv. 1.
_Brethren_, _I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto
you_.
Why should the obsolete, though faithful, Saxon translation of εὐαγγέλιον
be retained? Why not “good tidings?” Why thus change a most appropriate
and intelligible designation of the matter into a mere conventional name
of a particular book?
Ib.
—_how that Christ died for our sins_.
But the meaning of ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν is, that Christ died through
the sins, and for the sinners. He died through our sins, and we live
through his righteousness.
Gospel—Luke xviii. 14.
_This man went down to his house justified rather than the other_.
Not simply justified, observe; but justified rather than the other, ἤ
ἐκεῖνος,—that is, less remote from salvation.