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154 LIFE OF PAUL . "For we are laborerstogetherwithGod ." He claimedno wisdom of hisown ;but divinepower , unitingwith hishuman efforts,had enabledhim topresentthetruthin a manner pleasingtoGod . He was a co-laborerwith Christ,a diligentworker in bringingspiritualknowledgefrom the word of God and the works of Christ, to all whose heartswere open to evidence. United with Christ, who was the greatest of all teachers, Paul had been enabled to communicate lessons of divine wisdom , which met the necessitiesof all classesand conditionsof men , and which were to apply to alltimes, allplaces, and all people. In so doing,the apostletook no glory to himself, as a humble instrument in the hands of God . The Lord gave Paul the wisdom of a skillful architect, that he might lay the foundation of the church of Christ. This figureof the erectionof a templeisfrequentlyrepeatedin the Scriptures, as forciblyillustratingthe building up of the true Christianchurch. Zechariah refers to Christ as the Branch that should build the temple of the Lord . He alsorefersto the Gentilesas helpingin thiswork : "And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord." Paul had now been working in the Gentile quarry,tobringoutvaluablestonestolayupon thefoundation,which was JesusChrist,thatby coming in contactwith thatlivingstone, they might alsobecome livingstones. In writingto the Ephesians,he says: " Now ,therefore,ye are no more strangersand foreigners, but fellowcitizenswith the saints, and of the household of God ; and are builtupon the foundationof