Salvation is not God claiming from man, nor man acting for God or making out the means of meeting Him. But in God acting for man it is power at work in man's favor; and this not to help or plead merely, but to deliver from the state he was in—to save him.
And it is such to every one that believes, Jew or Greek, who alike need to be saved. God's power to save takes man up in his sin and need, not in his titles or claims, even if given of God as of old to Israel, and applies to a lost Gentile as to a lost Jew. Grace levels such distinctions and meets every one that believes; for the way is faith, not law, and thus is as open to the Greek as to the Jew. The gospel is God's power to salvation.