TO CORRESPONDENTS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1878

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

L. M. Winne: We should do all that we can to favor and aid the cause of temperance. If the red ribbon movement is properly conducted, kept free from side issues, and from unworthy exercises and accompaniments, support it.

How do you understand Ex. 4:24? M. McG.

ANS. It appears that God had commanded Moses to circumcise his son, which he had neglected to do. On this account, as every one not circumcised was to be cut off from his people, the Lord sought (or threatened, as the word means) to cut off or slay this son. Zipporah therefore herself performed the duty, and then claimed herself to have entered into covenant relation with God as fully as the one upon whom the rite had been performed, in these words, “A bloody husband thou art to me,” or a husband by blood, by means of this circumcision. See Dr. Clarke’s note on the passage.

J. H. C.: We cannot answer for the explanation which would be given of Mark 15:42, by those who place the crucifixion on Thursday. Probably they would say that the preparation day was the one introduced by the “even” of that verse. It would then be the day following the crucifixion, and the day before the Sabbath.

Please harmonize Acts 9:7, and 22:9. E. P. D.

ANS. The verb rendered “hear” in these passages, means not only to distinguish sounds by the ear, but also to understand. We give it the first sense in Acts 9:7, and the last in Acts 22:9. They heard the voice, the sound, but did not understand the words spoken. See Bloomfield and Dean Alford, on these passages.

ANSWERED BY LETTER: Dr. La Due, S. H. Lane, G. S. Honeywell, Mrs. L. Canright, E. P. Daniels, W. H. Kynett, J. M. Minier, R. F. Cottrell, J. A. Burdoin, E. A. Dean.