_Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee?_ SHAMS AND FRAUDS Though these Ephraimites are long since dead and gone, there are many Ephraimites alive. They are men who will not share the conflict themselves, but are angry when others... [ Continue Reading ]
_Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: _ TRIFLES INDICATE CHARACTER It is often just such a slight peculiarity which identifies men as belonging to a certain district or family. You know whose son a man is by some motion of his hands or by his walk, by the fall of a lock of hair or the way he... [ Continue Reading ]
_Abdon _. .. _ had forty sons and thirty nephews._ THE TIME OF PEACE For our instruction this we may learn, that in the time of peace, when there is freedom from war and persecution in a land, there is great prosperity in every kind, as multitudes of people, building, purchasing, and growing in wea... [ Continue Reading ]