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Christ is on the track of the company from the north, who are going up to the Passover, that is to be celebrated at the close of the following week. The time, the company, the road, all serve to bring up to the Savior’s thoughts events that are now so near, to Him of such momentous import. A spirit of eager impatience to be baptized with the impending baptism seizes upon Him, and gives a strange quickness and forwardness to His movements. His talk, His gait, His gestures all betoken how absorbed He is; the eye and thought away from...

There are several Scriptures contained in the Law of Moses which bear on this sin and related sins. We quote them here as to their sense and meaning. The general prohibition reads, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” that is, Let no Israelite be unfaithful to the marriage vow and enter into illicit relation with another. Death the penalty for adultery. Deut. 22:22-24. If a man be found committing adultery with a married woman, both shall be put to death, that the Israelitish people may be free from this evil. Likewise if the woman be a maiden betrothed to another man,...

Holiness, so it was pointed out, was one of the properties of the Levitical Priesthood. As was said, however, a distinction must be made between Aaron’s person as such and this person as vested with the office of priest. The character of Aaron’s holiness as priest was solely ceremonial, symbolical-typical. It was this as the office of high priest into which he was inducted through suitable ceremonial rites was symbolical. But Aaron was also commanded to bring himself forward as the living realization of the grace of God betokened by his office. This too was Aaron’s calling. It was the...

From the Ladies Aid Society of the Sioux Center Church we received a question about the punishment meted out to Gehazi and his seed for the former’s sin of covetousness and lying. The problem the society faced and could not solve satisfactorily was, how it is possible, seeing that the Bible teaches that the children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers, that not only Gehazi but also his seed is punished. We all know the history. Naaman, the Syrian, was cleansed of his leprosy through the instrumentality of following up the word of Elisha, the Prophet,...

This is the sentence element that forms the subject which was assigned to me by the Men’s League to speak on. In treating this subject, it is well that I set out with defining terms. The primary meaning of the word home is village, that is, the place where one resides. Thus the word home is the signification of one’s dwelling house; the house in which one resides, the place or country in which one dwells. The home is the place to which one resorts when retreating from the world. But the word stands for much more than one’s dwelling...

In our previous article I raised and answered the question: what was the position of the Levitical priesthood and in particular of Aaron in the divine economy instrumentally inaugurated by Moses? And the answer was to the following effects: Aaron in his capacity of high priest of atonement was mediator of God and man. What this implied was adequately explained. We must now inquire after the reason and purpose of God’s instituting the office of high priest and of His selecting from all the families of Israel the family of Aaron for the work of sacrificing, and for the right...

The Book divides into two parts. The first part chapter 1:1 to 2:27 inclusive. The dividing verse is clearly: “and it will come to pass that afterwards I will pour out, etc.” The second part begins with chapter 2:28 to the end of the Book. The first section is again comprised of two sub-divisions. The first of these begins with chapter 1:1 and continues through chapter 2:17; and the second section, chapter 2:18 to chapter 2:27 inclusive. The second part of the Book comprises three subdivisions. Section I: chapter 2:28 to chapter 3:8; Section II: chapter 3:9 to chapter 3...

The tabernacle, as was explained, stood for an action that consisted in God’s holding His people at a distance from Him and in His causing the high priest alone to enter His immediate presence in the Holiest. The High Priest went in alone “once every year, nor without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost thus signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing” (Heb. 9:7, 8). This scripture sets forth the purpose of God’s bringing into...

We must be careful in our Reformed circles and be on our guard and never be afraid of telling one another, whenever and wherever we see danger ahead for our Churches. In our little group of Churches such dangers do not seem imminent. We are a large family, well acquainted with one another, knowing the weak spots, as well as the strongholds. Yet, we are not safe, unless we adhere to our fundamentals, both in re our doctrine and our ecclesiastical ties, based upon the D. K. O. Any departure from either will in time be detrimental to our well-being....

Within the court of the temple, in the presence of the Pharisees and their satellites, Jesus had said, “I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” The saying, resented as egotistical and arrogant, led on to that dispute which ended in their taking up stones to cast at Him, and in His hiding Himself in some mysterious way and passing out of the temple, “going through the midst of them.” At one of the temple gates, or by the roadside without, “as Jesus passed by...