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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 10.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

L. Train: For a full explanation of the resurrection of Moses, see chapter entitled, The Transfiguration, in Man's Nature and Destiny.
A. H. Robinson: You are right in your query on the wearing of gold. We believe it is wrong every way, being contrary to the express directions of the word of God. It is the outward index of a heart that is filled with vanity and pride; and we cannot see that it makes any difference if it is a gift. We would not smoke a cigar any quicker if a man should give it to us, than we would if we had to buy it with our own money.
Please explain the expression in Matt. 11:19: “Wisdom is justified of her children.” D. S. J.
The words were evidently spoken by Christ in vindication of himself and John the Baptist against the charge of the Pharisees. John did not eat and drink in the ordinary manner, and they charged him with having a devil. Christ was not so abstemious, and they charged him with being a glutton. Here were teachers of wisdom, greater than any the world had ever before seen; yet the Pharisees, by the course they took, showed that they were determined to cavil, pick flaws, and find fault, whatever course might be taken by these teachers. But Christ declares that the course they had taken was not contrary to, but in accordance with, true wisdom. It was appropriate for John to fast; it was just as appropriate for Christ to eat and drink. Their work and position were different, but both acted in accordance with true wisdom; and thus, to paraphrase the sentence, the children, or followers, of wisdom, as were both John and Christ, took a course which was justified by, or was in accordance with, the dictates of the highest wisdom.