26. At the outset take note that this is not the order of the Apostle’s teaching, for in that order the surrender of the Kingdom is first, then the subjection, and lastly the end. But every cause is itself the result of its particular cause, so that, in every chain of causation, each cause, itself producing a result, has inevitably its underlying antecedent. Thus the end will come, but when He has delivered the Kingdom to God. He will deliver the Kingdom, but when He has abolished all authority and power. He will abolish all authority and power, because He must reign. He will reign until He has put all enemies under His feet. He will put all enemies under His feet, because God has subjected everything under His feet. God has so subjected them as to make death the last enemy to be conquered by Him. Then, when all things are subjected unto God, except Him Who subjected all things unto Him, He too will be subjected unto Him, Who subjects all to Himself. But the cause of the subjection is none other than that God may be all in all; and therefore the end is that God is all in all.

26. Objectorum Pauli verborum connexio.---Ac primum noscendum est, non hunc ordinem apostolicae esse doctrinae. Primum enim regni traditio est, deinde subjectio, postremo finis. Sed singulis quibusque causis propria quarumque causarum genera subjecta sunt: ut dum res singulae in res alias desinant, 0417C habeat semper subjacentem sibi causam causa praecedens. Finis enim erit; 392 sed cum tradiderit regnum Deo. Tradet autem regnum; sed cum evacuaverit omnem magistratum et omnem potestatem. Evacuabit autem omnem magistratum et potestatem, quia oportet eum regnare. Regnabit autem, donec ponat omnes inimicos sub pedibus suis. Ponet vero inimicos sub pedibus suis; quia Deus ei subjecit omnia sub pedibus ejus. Subjecit autem Deus ita, ut novissima ab eo mors inimica vincatur. Dehinc subjectis omnibus ei, praeter eum qui subjecit ei omnia; tunc subjicietur ipse subjicienti sibi omnia. Subjectionis vero causa non alia est, quam ut sit Deus omnia in omnibus. Finis itaque est, esse Deum omnia in omnibus.