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C.A.M.

As to Numbers 5, do you not think it results in comfort to the man who trespassed, when the fifth part is added to the principal? Also there is really gain to the priestly element amongst the saints?

JT That is the thing to be noted; we are not impoverished by trespasses of this kind.

There is sorrow connected with them but through reparation being made the saints are enriched. I believe the assembly was enriched by the outcome of Peter’s guilt. He went out and wept bitterly, we are told; then the Lord, as risen, appeared to him. The saints were enriched, when as gathered they were speaking about this very thing; saying, “The Lord is indeed risen and has appeared to Simon”. They were enriched in the sense of grace.

J. Taylor (Vol. 43, p.190)

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