The Gentiles were received as a body-but not as a body were the Gentiles received. Both these statements are in a sense true. The house of Stephanas, or any other such, was not grafted as if it were the body of the Gentiles; yet, at the same time, God represents the whole of the Gentiles who were received as a body, responsible to God; and this the Gentiles will understand, when they are punished, in a frightful manner, by the just judgment of God.