Confess the Lord Jesus; gospel mystery; God known through Christ

“And if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation. For the Scripture says: Everyone who believes upon him will not be put to shame.” If the whole definition of faith for us, and the power of the confession, stands around the person of Christ, and by confessing his death and resurrection we are justified as having believed toward God, who will dare to say that he is not God? If indeed he is the chief point of the salvation of all, both door and way, the confession of the faith toward him—for through him and in him the Father himself is also recognized by us.

“Now to the one who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for eternal times, but now manifested through the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God unto obedience of faith, made known unto all the nations, to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the might unto the ages, amen.” See how clearly he says the gospel and the proclamation are of Jesus Christ; and that the mystery concerning him was hidden and kept silent for eternal times, but has now been revealed unto obedience of faith unto all the nations. For the nations, removed from the falsely named worship, turned to Christ and recognized him as God by nature and truly. And if God was clearly known through Jesus Christ, how is Christ’s mystery not great? But if he is thought among us a human simply, and not rather God become human, the mystery is no longer wise.