Category: EXPOSITIONS

    ‘And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to    wife a daughter of Levi. 2. And the woman conceived, and    bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly    child, she hid him three months. 3. And when she could    not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of…

          ‘As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord,          so walk in Him, rooted and builded up in          Him.’–COL. ii. 6, 7 (R.V.).It is characteristic of Paul that he should here use three figuresincongruous with each other to express the same idea, the figures ofwalking, being rooted, and built up. They, however, have in common thatthey all suggest…

          ‘Wherefore also God highly exalted Him and gave          unto Him the name which is above every name; 10.          That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow,          of things in heaven, and things on earth, and          things under the earth; 11. And that every tongue          should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the          glory of God the Father.’–PHIL. ii.…

          ‘Only let your conversation be as it becometh the          gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you,          or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,          that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind          striving together for the faith of the gospel; 28.          And in nothing terrified by your          adversaries.’–PHIL. i. 27, 28.We read in the…

    ‘And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a    man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling    in tents. And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of    his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. And Jacob sod    pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:    And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me,…

    ‘And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all    the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a    wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;    The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven    were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;    And the waters returned from off the…

    ‘He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of    Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of    the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold    there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they    cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against    me.’–NUM. xxii. 6.Give a general outline of the…

    ‘They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.’    –GENESIS l. 26.So closes the book of Genesis. All its recorded dealings of God withIsrael, and all the promises and the glories of the patriarchal line,end with ‘a coffin in Egypt’. Such an ending is the more striking, whenwe remember that a space of…

    ‘And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward    Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the    way. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that    thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become    a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the    earth shall be blessed in him! For…

If life has a clear, definite aim, and especially if its aim is thehighest, there will be detachment from, and abandonment of, many lowerones. Nothing worth doing is done, and nothing worth being is realisedin ourselves, except on condition of resolutely ignoring much thatattracts. ‘They went forth’; Haran must be given up if Canaan is…