25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: …
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-27)Here the apostle solemnly closes his epistle with a magnificent ascription of glory to the blessed God, as one that terminated all in the praise and glory of God, and studied to return all to him, seeing all is of him and from him. He does, as it were, breathe out his soul to these Romans in the praise of God, choosing to make that the end of his epistle which he made the end of his life. Observe…
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