WE reprint the following paragraph from a recent issue of The Signs of the Times, and commend it to the attention of those who so persistently misread and misapply the text upon which the comment is made:— Those who quote the passage, 1 Tim. 4:1-5, as having particular application to the last days, pervert the text. It is true that our common version reads “the latter times,” but this does not necessarily mean more than in the Christian dispensation. See the expression “these last days,” in Heb. 1:2. The Revised Version renders both correctly, “in later times,” “these days.” The Greek term husteros means “later,” “afterward.” Rotherham’s Emphatic Translation renders “in later seasons.” The word kairos, rendered “times,” does not mean measured duration, but special times, opportunities. Heb. 1:1. The thought is that there will be just such manifestations as predicted all along at times, but all the result of apostasy. The term koluo, rendered “forbidding,” does not mean, as in that travesty of a translation, the “Twentieth Century New Testament,” “discouraging marriage.” It means to “estop,” or “prevent,” by word or act. It is translated elsewhere “forbid,” “not suffer,” “keep from,” “withstand.” See 1 Thess. 2:16. The word broma, translated “meats,” means food of any kind, something to eat. See its use in Matt. 15:37; Mark 9:8; John 4:32; 1 Cor. 10:3. “Them that believe and know the truth” will apply to true Christians in any age. Some have applied the text to Seventh-day Adventists. Let us say once for all that the people known by that name never forbade marriage, never commanded to abstain from meats. The people should not be held responsible for overzealous, uninstructed, or unbalanced individual members. This note and the article on the same text in our issue of April 6 must suffice for a time. It is a good scripture when properly used; but it is generally used either as an excuse for self-indulgence or as a bludgeon to strike some one or some class, who may seem too radical, or both. The true, advancing child of God will seek deeper, more spiritual things.