Baxendale's Aneodotes Hebrews 9:27-28 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:… A deaf and dumb scholar once wrote on the slate to his teacher, "I cannot see how Jesus Christ alone should be able to die for all men." The teacher (Charlotte Elizabeth) thought for a while how she should open his mind to the blessed truth; and then she went out and brought in a whole apronful of dead leaves, which she put on one end of her desk; then she took off a diamond ring, and put it on the other end. The countenance of the mute scholar lighted up in a moment. "I see it now," he wrote, "Jesus is a diamond worth more than all the leaves of a dead world." (Baxendale's Aneodotes.) Parallel Verses KJV: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:WEB: Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, |
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