numbered among the "reasoners" who explain away the Truth of God, let us rejoice in the

fact that at salvation the mind has been "renewed" and whether in testifying to others, or

reading for ourselves, the things believed (like the offering of our bodies), must be

reasonable (logikos) service. Less than this dishonours both God and man who was made

in the image of his Maker.

We have seen that in the quest for "sense", the mind advances from sense impressions

to reason by the aid of memory. We have seen that to "reason out of Scriptures" was an

outstanding characteristic of Paul's ministry, and we should strenuously resist any

attempt by a teacher of the authoritarian school (the school so contrary to the Berean

spirit) to intimidate us by a disproportionate emphasis upon the failure of human reason

to arrive at the truth.

As a supplement to the study of Paul's manner which occupied our space in

article No.5, we devote the present article to an examination of some of the logical

particles which of themselves imply a reasoning faculty, and which are of such frequent

and pointed occurrence in his writings.