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It becomes very solemn to consider that the commercial system heads up in the king of Tyre, who is a type of Satan himself. It is right that the people of God, having necessarily to do directly or indirectly with commerce, should be warned as to progressing in it beyond what is necessary. If we aim at anything beyond that, we place ourselves within the range of the god of this world. In handling the creatures of God commercially for a livelihood, you can give God thanks, but going beyond that into the spirit of Tyre in competition and ambition is dangerous; it means we are brought under the influence of the god of this world ...

If I can supply, through commerce, the means of helping the people of God, as Hiram did in David’s and Solomon’s day, that is a justifiable thing; but when I go beyond that, and amass the means of living in affluence and leave God out, I put myself within the range of the god of this world.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 24 pp.267–8)

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