‘Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible,          the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever          and ever. Amen.’–1 TIM. i. 17.With this burst of irrepressible praise the Apostle ends his referenceto his own conversion as a transcendent, standing instance of theinfinite love and transforming power of God. Similar doxologiesaccompany almost all his references to the…

          ‘Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace          of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2.          How that in a great trial of affliction the          abundance of their joy and their deep poverty          abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3.          For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond          their power they were willing of themselves;…

          ‘And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that          in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed          from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me          in the matter of giving and receiving, but ye          only; for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and          again unto my need. Not that I seek for the gift;          but I seek for the fruit that…

    ‘The name of the one [of Moses’ sons] was Gershom … and    the name of the other was Eliezer….’–EXODUS xviii. 3, 4.In old times parents often used to give expression to their hopes ortheir emotions in the names of their children. Very clearly that wasthe case in Moses’ naming of his two sons, who seem to…

          ‘That I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not          having a righteousness of my own, even that which          is of the law, but that which is through faith in          Christ, the righteousness which is of God by          faith.’–PHIL. iii. 8, 9 (R.V.).It is not everybody who _can_ say what is his aim in life. Many of ushave…

          ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,          long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23.          Meekness, temperance’–GAL. v. 22, 23.‘The fruit of the Spirit,’ says Paul, not the fruits, as we might morenaturally have expected, and as the phrase is most often quoted; allthis rich variety of graces, of conduct and character, is thought of asone.…

          ‘The life which I now live in the flesh I live by          the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and          gave Himself for me.’–GAL. ii. 20.We have a bundle of paradoxes in this verse. First, ‘I am crucified withChrist, nevertheless I live.’ The Christian life is a dying life. If weare in any real…

    ‘Now these are the names of the children of Israel,    which came into Egypt: every man and his household    came with Jacob. 2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,    3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4. Dan and Naphtali,    Gad and Asher. 5. And all the souls that came out of    the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was    in Egypt…

    ‘Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make    there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when    thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother,’    GENESIS XXXV. 1.Thirty years at least had passed since Jacob’s vow; ten or twenty sincehis return. He is in no haste to fulfil it, but has settled down atShechem…

    ‘And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2. This shall be    the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He    shall be brought unto the priest: 3. And the priest    shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall    look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed    in the leper; 4. Then shall…