DISCOURSE: 442 NEHEMIAH’S FIRMNESS Nehemiah 6:3. _I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 443 CHRISTIAN FIRMNESS Nehemiah 6:11. _And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in_. WHOEVER examines the character of the primitive saints, will see, without fail, how religion dignifies and... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 444 THE EXPEDITION WITH WHICH THE WALL OF JERUSALEM WAS BUILT Nehemiah 6:15. _So the wall was finished …in fifty and two days_. A MERE historic record of the time occupied in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem appears at first sight to be an uninteresting subject for a popular discourse: b... [ Continue Reading ]