"[verse] 4. For Thou art not a God who delights in wickedness, that is, in an esteeming of persons. It is as if he were saying: “My salvation is in faith and grace, and not in the Law or physical descent.” Otherwise God would be unjust, one who would receive all who are children of Abraham after the flesh and his heirs, even though many among them are ungodly and evil; therefore, to choose and receive them thus without distinction [without discrimination] would be a manifest injustice. But now the Lord “comes to judge the earth” (Ps. 98:9; 1 Chron. 16:33), and He rules in judgment, because He receives neither according to the flesh nor according to the person. But “he who believes will be saved” (Mark 16:16). Therefore Peter says, Acts 10:34: “Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality.”
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