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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fh hat)e not 00 learne ) (Eltrist Ephesians iv. 2O, 21. But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be ye have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus. CIT. PAUL in this passage, which stands in the midst -' of the Epistle for the day, is urging the people of Ephesus to abandon more completely than they seem hitherto to have done, all the unholy and ungodly ways of living, which, like other Gentile people, they had practised before they were baptized into the Christian Church. He presses hard, if I may so speak, upon them. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, that is, in the foolish, wicked, self- chosen ways that the Gentiles round you walk in, ? having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts, ?for they, like blind men, not having any clear rule or direction which way togo, wander wildly about, doing all sorts of things which are vile and unholy, ?for being past feeling, they have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all unclean- ness with greediness. I beg you, he seems to say, I conjure you, I most earnestly implore you, not to go on like them. Ye are Christians?ye have learned Christ?ye have heard Christ, ye have been taught by Christ, ye have been taught the true lesson of Christ, the lesson as it was exhibited in Christ Himself, ?so that ye, being so taught, must put off the old behaviour, the old man which is corrupt, by following the deceitful lusts, and must be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and must put on the new man, which, after the likeness of God, is created again in righteousness and true holiness. Now I cannot venture to
| ISBN-13 | 9780217028967 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217028969 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 156 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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