Romans 2:17-29 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,… I am afraid that very often the truth which we deliver from the pulpit — and doubtless it is much the same in your classes — is a thing which is extraneous and out of ourselves, like the staff which we hold in our hand but which is not a part of ourselves. We take doctrinal or practical truth as Gehazi did the staff, and we lay it upon the face of the child, but we ourselves do not agonise for its soul. We try this doctrine and that truth, this anecdote and the other illustration, this way of teaching a lesson and that manner of delivering an address; but so long as ever the truth which we deliver is a matter apart from ourselves and unconnected with our innermost being, so long it will have no more effect upon a dead soul than Elisha's staff had upon the dead Child. (C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,WEB: Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, |
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