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The Gift of God

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 21, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 26.

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The Gift of God

EPH. ii, 8: “For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.”
What is the gift of God?
This question is answered by the Greek text; for in the Greek every pronoun must agree with its antecedent in gender. The pronoun “that,” in this text, is in the neuter gender, therefore it cannot agree with grace or faith, for they are both in the feminine, it must therefore refer to the general fact stated in the text, viz., the salvation of God.