the righteousness of God.
i. The first entrance unto salvation, is to renounce our own righteousness: the next is, to embrace that righteousness by faith, which God has freely offered to us in the Gospel.
ii. The ignorance of the Law which we should know, excuses none before God, especially it doesn't excuse them that are of His household.
iii. Ignorance has always pride joined with it.
[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]
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Nice to see you posting again. I like the post in general, but there is one point that may need refinement.
I don't think your (iii) is factually correct. If you are limiting scope to the setting of this scripture, OK. But as a general axiom, I think it needs refinement. I, for example, am ignorant of the details of how to knit. I don't think there is pride there. Now if I tried to knit a bullet proof vest in hopes it would save my life, well, then you can see great pride around my ignorance leading me to a fall.
The ignorance spoken of here is the ignorance of God, whom is plainly revealed in the created world. Romans 1:19-22
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