Isaiah 29:8
The general truth taught by these words is this: wrong-doing promises
much, but it certainly ends in bitter disappointment. The good to be
gained by sin is seen and tasted and handled only in dream. It is
never actually possessed, and visible disappointment is the bitter
fruit of transg... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 29:11
I. There is something of truth in the representation that the Bible is
a sealed book. We always regard it as a standing proof of the Divine
origin of the volume, that it is not to be unfolded by the processes
which we apply to a merely human composition, and that every attempt
to enter... [ Continue Reading ]