But the Gentile view was equally inadequate although the meanings of virtue and of law had been thoroughly explored by Greek and man thinkers, notably by the Stoies. The trouble chiefly was the divorce between philosophy and re-Higion, religion and conduct. One did not lead to the other at all, whereas they should melt into each other. Sir Henry Jones made remark on the poetry of Robert Browning that "he was driven by ethics into philosophy, by morality into religion." You cannot separate the problems of conduct from the principles of thought and faith. The moral standard rises and falls according as thought and faith are sure of themselves or not.
Now there was no inward assurance in the Gentile world that could maintain a man's courage and hope. in view of the temptations and trials of life. And further the conception of virtue and law fell far short of the needs of the uneducated and unemancipated. They had no place the pagan scheme of life, and never could have until a new' conception of goodness hud been revealed in th character and life of Jesus Chris So you see Paul had good reason to be proud of his Gospel. It revealed first to the Jew and then to the Gentile a power which came through Christ and his marvellous translation of divine righteous. ness into love, with all its power of forgiveness and friendship that could bbe grasped by the hand of faith.
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