Wrongly Dividing | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 24, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 42.

Wrongly Dividing.

In a document before us we read:

He [Christ] had spoken the words, "Agree with thine adversary quickly." . . . Who is my adversary? "A brother taken in a fault;" "A righteous man turned from his righteousness." Eze. 3:20.

Now it is not necessarily true that a brother overtaken in a fault is my adversary, or that a righteous man whose feet have slipped is my foe. He may have nothing against me at all. And surely it could not be my duty to agree quickly with one in a fault. See Matt. 5:23-25. If a man is at fault or a sinner, God's law is his adversary. Agree with it quickly.