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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 15, 1867

FromThe Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 18

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The Candle of the Wicked.

“The candle of the wicked shall be put out.”—Prov. xiv, 20.
“Her candle goeth not out by night.”—Prov. xxxi, 18.
It is the custom of Oriental families to burn a lamp all through the night, usually in every inhabited room. The poorest people would rather retrench a part of their food than dispense with it. The lamps are very simple, usually only a small flat dish with oil in it, and a bit of cloth for a wick. The expression “The candle of the wicked shall be put out,” is equivalent to predicting their total destruction. So, too, when God promises to give David a light always in Jerusalem (1 Kings xi, 36), it is the same as an assurance that his house should never become desolate.