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1985 Volume 36 Issue 4
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The rebuilding of the walls and gates of Jerusalem in Nehemiah 3, and the order in which the gates are mentioned represent a beautiful spiritual order for the Christian life. These gates repay careful s…
In the Scriptures God is depicted as a husbandman, that is, a cultivator or tiller of the soil. He spares no effort in tilling the “soil of humanity” in preparation for the good seed of His Word, in exp…
"Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” said the Lord. Ezekiel 18.23. As this report goes to press there is much to encourage about it. Behind the stories of blessing, there lies a back…
It is recorded, “But Samuel minis-tered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year … And the child Sam…
Haggai and Zachariah were the post-exilic “prophets of work” commissioned by God to encourage His returned exiles to complete the restoration of the temple. The task had lapsed for almost sixteen years.…
(written in 1871) A more momentous subject could hardly engage the attention of a Christian parent than that of “books”. One of our greatest practical difficulties is to preserve our children from the t…
Having emphasized in chapter 1 the fulness of forgiveness and the happiness enjoyed in the appreciation of the same, John now seems to anticipate that some might lean toward licence. If we can never be …
Philippians 2. 5-11 is full of important doctrinal truth touching on the person of our Lord. In this article we are concerned, however, only with verse 6. We note at the outset that this spiritual gem o…
In the second half of his gospel, the apostle John seems to delight in hiding his identity under the descriptive phrase “the disciple whom Jesus loved”. Such a description occurs five times and each tim…
We conclude with John’s crucifixion narrative, which includes four of the eight sayings from the cross; see 19. 23-30. He omits the two prayers which the Lord uttered at the beginning and the end of His…
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