Order in Ecclesiastical Institution
Hebrews 5:4-6
And no man takes this honor to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.…


In human doings and human productions we see everywhere manifestations of order. Well-ordered stones make architecture; well-ordered social regulations make a constitution and a police; well-ordered ideas make good logic; well-ordered words make good writing; well-ordered imaginations and emotions make good poetry; well-ordered facts make science. Disorder, on the ether hand, makes nothing at all, but un-makes everything. Stones in disorder produce ruins; an ill-ordered social condition is decline, revolution, or anarchy; ill-ordered ideas are absurdity; ill-ordered words are neither sense nor grammar; ill-ordered imaginations and emotions are madness; ill-ordered facts are chaos.

(J. S. Blackie.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

WEB: Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.




Of the Honour of the Ministerial Calling
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