Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed on you labor in vain. Dr. Talmage says, "I remember visiting a military prison where they punish men by making them carry cannon-balls from one end of the yard to the other, and the sergeant who accompanied me said: 'When we made the men carry the balls from this end of the yard to the other to make a pyramid at the other end there was a kind of amusement in it, because they were building up this pyramid; and so we made an alteration, and the man has to carry the ball from this end of the yard to the other and back again, and his toil seems to be so altogether fruitless, that it becomes a double punishment to him.'" Even so it is a source of bitter pain to an earnest minister to feel that his laborious efforts for the good of his hearers are after all in vain. Parallel Verses KJV: I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.WEB: I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you. |
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