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December 19—Morning Devotion
"God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord."—1 Corinthians 1:9 Think, my soul, what a dignity believers in Jesus are called unto, when brought into a nearness of communion with their glorious head, in any exercise of trial or affliction for his sake. God is faithful in the appointment. How?…
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77 Misrepresentation
MISREPRESENTATION The act of wilfully representing a thing otherwise than it is. "This," as an elegant writer observes, "is one of the greatest mischiefs of conversation. Self-love is continually at work to give to all we say a bias in our own favour. How often in society, otherwise respectable, are we pained with narrations in which prejudice warps, and self-love…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 4, Verse 7
“For God hath not called us, etc.]” The Syriac version reads “you”. This is another reason to enforce the above exhortations, and to caution them against the above unclean practices, taken from the end of the effectual calling by the efficacious grace of God, which is not “unto uncleanness” Of any sort, as before specified. This they had lived in…
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December 18—Morning Devotion
"For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father."—Ephesians 2:18 Who would have thought that so short a verse should contain so much sweetness? And who would have conceived that in it the gracious offices of all the Persons of the Godhead, as they are mercifully exercised towards a poor sinner; are described? Is not the…
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76 Antitype
ANTITYPE A greek word, properly signifying a type or figure corresponding to some other type. The word antitype occurs twice in the New Testament, viz. in the Epistle to the Hebrews 9:24, and in the 1 Epistle of St. Peter chap. 3:21. where its genuine import has been much controverted. The former says, that Christ is not entered into the…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 4, Verse 6
“That no man go beyond, and defraud his brother in any matter, etc.]” Or “in this matter”, as the Syriac version. This is commonly understood of transgressing the bounds of justice and equity between men and men; and of cheating and defrauding in trade and business, by increasing or lessening the value and prices of goods by the buyer and…
