WITH the Epistles to the Colossians and Ephesians before us, I am of opinion that the wars of Israel have their answer in our wrestling with the powers of darkness; that the gradual acquisition of their land corresponds with our setting our affections on the things above, where Christ sitteth; and that we too have our circumcision, first in Christ, in whom the flesh has met its doom; and secondly, in the practical way of mortifying our members which are upon the earth, &c. To neglect these cross lights of the Old and New Testaments is to despise, unwittingly, the means of heavenly wisdom.
THERE is nothing in vain in Scripture, not a word from Genesis to Revelation which God wrote could be changed but for the worse.... The tendency of men is to take on them to judge the Word of God: did they believe that the Word of God judges them, it would be safer and more becoming.