Homilist Exodus 4:19 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought your life. 1. In a world like this, the greater the man the more enemies he will have. 2. Death in this world is constantly sweeping away our enemies as well as friends. I. The death of our enemies should RESTRAIN RESENTMENT. Were it not wrong to return evil for evil, to revile those who revile us, it would scarcely be wise. While we are preparing our retaliating machinery, death is doing his work with them. Our blows will scarcely reach them before they fall, and then, when they are gone, they can do us no harm. But if we have retaliated, the memory of the retaliation will give us pain. II. The death of our enemies should STIMULATE US TO OVERCOME EVIL BY GOOD. The sublimest conquest is not that which will crush the body or wound the feelings, but that which will subdue the enmity and win the hostile soul to friendship and love. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. |
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