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"Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for it is time that Thou have mercy upon her" (ver. 13). What time? "But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law." And where is Sion? "To redeem them that were under the Law." ¹ First then were the Jews: for thence were the Apostles, thence those more than five hundred brethren, ² thence that later multitude, who had but one heart and one soul toward God. ³ Therefore, "the time is come." What time? "Behold, now is the accepted time: behold, now is the day of salvation." ⁴ Who saith this? That Servant of God, that Builder, who said, "Ye are God's building." ⁵