‘When the fulness of the time came, God sent forth          His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that          He might redeem them which were under the law,          that we might receive the adoption of sons.’–GAL.          iv. 4, 5 (R.V.).It is generally supposed that by the ‘fulness of time’ Paul means toindicate that Christ came at the…

    ‘The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is    Mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with Me.’    –LEV. xxv. 23.The singular institution of the Jubilee year had more than one purpose.As a social and economical arrangement it tended to prevent theextremes of wealth and poverty. Every fiftieth year the land was torevert to…

          ‘But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that          I write unto you; for ye yourselves are taught of          God to love one another. 10. And indeed ye do it          toward all the brethren which are in all          Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye          increase more and more; 11. And that ye study to          be quiet, and to do…

          ‘ . . . Them also which sleep in Jesus . . .’–1          THESS. iv. 14.That expression is not unusual, in various forms, in the Apostle’swritings. It suggests a very tender and wonderful thought of closenessand union between our Lord and the living dead, so close as that He is,as it were, the atmosphere in which…

    ‘… Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and    that will by no means clear the guilty….’–EXODUS xxiv. 7.The former chapter tells us of the majesty of the divine revelation asit was made to Moses on ‘the mount of God.’ Let us notice that,whatever was the visible pomp of the external Theophany to the senses,the true revelation…

          ‘But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent          beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds          should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in          Christ.’–2 COR. xi. 3.The Revised Version, amongst other alterations, reads, ‘the simplicitythat is _towards_ Christ.’The inaccurate rendering of the Authorised Version is responsible for amistake in the meaning of these words,…

    ‘And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,    saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you,    and with your seed after you; And with every living    creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle,    and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that    go out of the ark, to…

    ‘… The mighty God of Jacob. From thence is the Shepherd,    the stone of Israel.’–GENESIS xlix. 24.A slight alteration in the rendering will probably bring out themeaning of these words more correctly. The last two clauses shouldperhaps not be read as a separate sentence. Striking out the supplement‘is,’ and letting the previous sentence run on to…

    ‘… Thou hast guided them in Thy strength unto Thy    holy habitation.’    EXODUS XV. 13.What a grand triumphal ode! The picture of Moses and the children ofIsrael singing, and Miriam and the women answering: a gush of nationalpride and of worship! We belong to a better time, but still we can feelits grandeur. The deliverance has made…

    ‘… I have given your priest’s office unto you as a    service of gift.’–NUM. xviii. 7.All Christians are priests–to offer sacrifices, alms, especiallyprayers; to make God known to men.I. Our priesthood is a gift of God’s love.We are apt to think of our duties as burdensome. They are an honour anda mark of God’s grace.1. They…