THE MEANS OF SAFETY “When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you…” Proverbs 2:10-11 CHRIST’S prayer for his disciples was not that they should be taken out of the world, but that they should be preserved from the evil that is in it. Life is a voyage on the deep: there are perils (dangers) which we must pass; how shall we pass them safely? The grand [remedy]…
4. “To walk in the ways of darkness.” There is a, strictly causal and reciprocal relation between unrighteous deeds and moral darkness. The doing of evil produces darkness, and darkness produces the evil-doing. Indulged lusts put out the eye-sight of the conscience[1]; and under the darkened conscience the lusts revel unchecked. “From him that has not, shall be taken away.” 5. “Who rejoice to do evil.” This is a more advanced step in guilt. At first the backslider is ashamed…
PERILS IN THE DEEP[1] “To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked; Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths; To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words, Who forsakes the companion of her youth,…
This is the conclusion of the short excerpt from William Arnot’s “ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth”: 3. “Cry after knowledge.” The preceding verse expressed the bent heavenward of the heart within and the senses without: this verse represents the same process at a more advanced stage. The longing for God’s salvation already begotten in the heart, bursts forward now into an irrepressible cry. It is not any longer a Nicodemus inclined toward Jesus,…
The following is an excerpt from William Arnot’s “ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth”. SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND “If you seek her as silver . . . you shall find the knowledge of God.” — Proverbs 2:4, 5. WISDOM continues still to cry unto men with the affectionate authority of a parent. The incarnation of the Son is God’s grand utterance to mankind. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us….