_Thus saith the Lord, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart._ THE PUNISHMENT OF EVIL The great teaching of the text is that we must not allow appearances to mislead us respecting the fact and certainty of the law of retribution. God ha... [ Continue Reading ]
_And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem._ JEREMIAH PERSECUTED After the captivity and death of Jehoiakim, his brother Zedekiah, another son of Josiah, sat upon the throne. He seems to have been of weak and superstitious rather than of vicious character... [ Continue Reading ]
_Is there any word from the Lord?_ .. . There is. IS THERE ANY WORD FROM THE LORD? The man who asked this momentous question belonged to the class of solemn triflers. He came with the right question in his mouth, and sometimes to get a right question is to be half-way on to the answer. To get the... [ Continue Reading ]