THE DIVINE DESCRIPTION OF MAN APART FROM GOD

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 8, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 36.

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THE DIVINE DESCRIPTION OF MAN APART FROM GOD.

His Head.—“The whole head is sick,” full of “putrifying sores.” Isa. 1: 5, 6.
His Mind.—“Reprobate,” “defiled.” Rom. 1: 28; Titus 1: 15.
His Thoughts.—“Thoughts of iniquity.” Isa. 59: 7.
His Conscience.—“Seared with a hot iron,” “defiled.” 1 Tim. 4: 2; Titus 1: 15.
His Understanding.—“Darkened.” Eph. 4: 18.
His Eyes.—“An evil eye,” “that can not cease from sin.” 2 Peter 2: 14.
His Lips.—“Unclean,” “the poison of asps,” “adders’ poison.” Isa. 6: 5; Rom. 3: 13; Ps. 140: 3.
His Throat.—“An open sepulcher.” Rom. 3: 13.
His Tongue.—“Deadly poison,” “deceit.” James 3: 8; Rom. 3: 13.
His Mouth.—“Full of cursing and bitterness.” Rom. 3: 14.
His Ears.—“Dull of hearing.” Matt. 13: 15.
His Neck.—“Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart.” Acts 7: 51.
His Heart.—Is full of “evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, thefts, covetousness wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.” Mark 7: 20–23.
His Hands.—“Full of blood,” “the act of violence is in their hands.” Isa. 1: 15; 59: 6.
His Body.—A “body of death.” Rom. 7: 24.
His Feelings.—“Past feeling.” Eph. 4: 19.
His Bones.—“Full of the sin of his youth.” Job 20: 11.
His Feet.—“Are swift to shed blood,” Rom. 3: 15.
J. N. COLE.
Wilkeson, Oregon.