EXTRACTS

“The chastening spoken of in Hebrews 12 is not in connection with wrong doing, but with right doing. It will do you good, you will think less of yourself in future, but it is those who are suffering for righteousness; it is resisting unto blood striving against sin. “My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him”. Neither be a duck that does not mind the rain, nor a hen that is miserable in it, but say, I am looking for the benefit that is to accrue to me from this very painful circumstance”.

J. B. Stoney (N.S. Vol.2 p.62)

“Grace has this character; it is not simply love (it is perfectly love, but it is not simply love); it is love acting where evil already is, and towards that which is evil. There is perfect love between the Father and the Son, but that is not grace … Grace is the exercise of this same perfect holy love towards that which is totally unworthy of it. It is this new wonder come out—love acting when the occasion for it was in the faults and sins of those towards whom it acts”.

J. N. Darby (Coll. Wrtgs. N.S. Vol. 12 p.342)

“He says, “Yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary”—a little one, in keeping with the circumstances, nevertheless He is there as really as He was in that glorious setting up of the tabernacle according to Exodus … There is something peculiarly precious about it, ‘ I will be to you a little sanctuary’. We have to be content with small things, but never let us forget that the quality is equal to the beginning. What we have is equal to what they had at Pentecost—no less than the Father and the Son making Their abode with us”.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 27 p.443)

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