There is, it appears, no stopping this God. Those who believe, having responded in faith to the ‘call’ which turns out to have been planned by God long ago, are declared to be ‘in the right’. That does not simply mean that their sins are forgiven for ever, though they are. It means that they can hold their heads up, now in their rat-ridden apartments on the wrong side of Rome’s polluted River Tiber, or in the slaves’ quarters at the back of some great house, or camping out in a ditch somewhere, having been kicked out of a home or town. They can be assured that they are the true people of the
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