_RULES FOR MASTERS_ ‘Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.’ Colossians 4:1 St. Paul does not seem to go much into detail here, for he sums up in two words the master’s duty, but what a wealth of meaning, what a mine of suggest... [ Continue Reading ]
_CHRISTIAN CONVERSATION_ ‘Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.’ Colossians 4:6 There are four kinds of conversation—general conversation, conversation for discussion, conversation to do good, and spiritual conversation. I shall speak now, of course, of them all only in referen... [ Continue Reading ]
_LUKE THE EVANGELIST_ ‘Luke, the beloved physician.’ Colossians 4:14 St. Luke is said to have been born at Antioch; the probability, therefore, is that he was, as Jerome says, a Syrian, and thus a Gentile. If so, then he was a proselyte to the Jewish religion. I. HE IS DESCRIBED AS ‘THE BELOVED... [ Continue Reading ]