4312 - PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 9, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 22.

4312 — PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT

By Editor

In Isa. 28:13 it reads to me as if the “precept upon precept” would cause them to fall and to be broken. Please make it clear, as I have always understood we were to study the Bible by comparing scripture with scripture. J. R. J.

This is said of those who would not hear the Lord's word. Verse 12. The message came to them over and over again, one precept after another, as they were able to receive it; but to them that rejected it, it became a stone of stumbling, which, when they attempted to go forward, blindly following their own wisdom, caused them to fall backward and be broken. Instead of profiting by God's mode of instructing, “precept upon precept,” etc., they made it into a stumbling-block. Hosea 6:5; 8:12; Matt. 13:14. Read the next two verses (14 and 15) of this chapter, which show that the Lord is addressing a class of “scornful men.”