Verse 46
46. No man that sinneth not Or, rather, That may not sin. The statement is not made with reference to the possibilities of gracious attainment in the Christian life, but to the ordinary facts of human history. The meaning is. There is no man, and no nation, that can claim to be beyond the possibility of sinning. Israel must not assume, that because they are the chosen people they may not, by running into sin, draw down the Divine anger in bitter judgments upon them. But here is surely no such universal proposition as to involve, (as some assume,) that even the New Testament saint whose life is hid with Christ in God, sees never in this life the hour in which he does not sin. Such teaching is as absurd as it is unscriptural.
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