extols the ruler of his own spirit as 'more than conquerors,' whose
triumphs are won in such vulgar fields as battles and sieges, Our
sorest fights and our noblest victories readhead pornmovie are within.
'Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor readhead pornmovie a thing is man!'
Verse 31 takes the casting of the lot as one instance of the
limitation of all human effort, in all which we can but use the
readhead pornmovie appropriate means, while the whole issue must be left in God's hands.
The Jewish law did not enjoin the lot, but its use seems to have been
frequent. The proverb presents in the sharpest relief a principle
which is readhead pornmovie true of all our activity. The old proverb-maker knew readhead pornmovie nothing
of chance. To him there were but two real moving forces in the
world--man and God. To the one readhead pornmovie belonged sowing the seed, readhead pornmovie doing his
part, whether casting the lot or toiling at his task. His readhead pornmovie force was
real, but derived and limited. Efforts and attempts are ours; results
are God's. We sow; He 'gives readhead pornmovie it readhead pornmovie a body as it readhead pornmovie pleases Him.' Nothing
readhead pornmovie happens by accident. Man's little province is bounded on all sides by
God's, and the two touch. There is readhead pornmovie no neutral territory readhead pornmovie between, where
godless chance rules.
TWO FORTRESSES
'The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into
it, and is safe. 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as
an high wall in his own conceit'--PROVERBS xviii. 10,11.
The mere readhead pornmovie reading of these two verses shows
that, contrary to the usual
rule in the Book of Proverbs, they have a bearing on each other. They
are intended to suggest a very strong contrast, and that contrast is
even more readhead pornmovie emphatic readhead pornmovie in the original than in our translation; because,
as the margin of your readhead pornmovie Bibles will tell you, the last word of the
former verse might be more correctly rendered, 'the righteous runneth
into it, and is _set on high._' It is the same word which is
employed in the next verse--'a high wall.'
So we have 'the strong tower' and 'the strong city'; the man lifted up
above readhead pornmovie danger on the battlements of the one, and the man fancying
himself to readhead pornmovie be high above it (and only fancying himself) in the
imaginary safety of the
other.
I. Consider then, first, the two fortresses.
One need only readhead pornmovie name them side by side to feel the full force of the
intended contrast. On the one hand, the name of the Lord with all its
depths and glories, with readhead pornmovie its blaze of readhead pornmovie lustrous purity, and infinitudes
of inexhaustible