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Mark … is the shortest of the gospels and that is not an

accident. He is the levitical gospel writer. The point in his

gospel is instruction for those who minister, and he is brief and

always explicit and to the point. He raises a point quickly, and

presents it quickly and briefly.

If you are interested, says Mark, you will look somewhere else;

you will get more. In no sense do I intend to confine you to

what I write; if you wish to inquire further, you will find it in such

and such a book. If you want to inquire, the Spirit of God

always permits inquiry, and never wishes to limit us; yet it is

needful not to occupy ourselves at too great a length, nor to

wear out the saints of God by long perorations or prayers, but

to be brief and come to the point, saying nothing that is without

meaning.

J. Taylor (Vol. 42, p.25)

It is not to be my mind working on God’s truth, but God’s truth

working on my mind. We have an unction from the Holy One.

There is a marvellous difference between grasping after truth,

and finding truth itself holding us.

J. B. Stoney (Vol. 9, p.18)

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