John 16:8-11 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:… When Daguerre was working at his sun-pictures his great difficulty was to fix them. The light came and imprinted the image; but when the tablet was drawn from the camera the image had vanished. Our lamentations is like his — our want the same; a fixing solution that shall arrest and detain the fugitive impressions. He discovered the chemical power which turned the evanescent into the durable. There is a Divine agency at hand that can fix the truth upon the heart of man — God's Holy Spirit. (J. Stoughton, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:WEB: When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; |
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