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out to all the deptilea. |
Isaiah 54s2,3.) The same word Is
rendered ''edify" In Acts s:3i; 1st
Cor. s,1; 1923; iI;4; 1st Tim.
5;1i and in LIST Peter Q; 5 it is trans.
lated .'are built up" And the mean
ing Ii that upon Christ as founda-
tion rock his church should be up
built, enlarged and extended till all
the Gentiles be included. So that
Math. i6: Is was prophecy Of which
the commission to hgptize the Gen
tiles was The fulfillment.
Then Mr.. Duncan wants to con-
fine me to what the Apostles did
when they were setting up" christ
lanity. The only place where I read
Of any "setting up" is in Acts 1916,
"After this 1 will return, and will
build again the Tabernacle of David,
which is fallen down and l will build
again the ruins thereof, and will
set it up" This language of James
is q quotation from the Old Testa-
Dent and If the reader will look back
at Amos Oil, he will find the pro-
phecy and see that the extension of
the gospel privileges to the Gentiles
was "building the Tabernacle of
David as in the days of DID," (Acts
1918, II, compared with Amos Oil,
49, The same sentiment and truth
may be seen in Malachi 3:3, 4. In
speaking of the mission of Jesus the
Christ, the prophet says, Sand be
shall sit as refiner and purifier OF
silver; and he shall purify the sons
of Lew, and purge them as gold and
silver, that they may offer unto the
Lord an offering in righteousness
Then shall the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord
as in days of old, and as in former
years" So far from there being
no value in the Old Testament era
the very perfection of the New
Testament time is the restoration oil
the pheasant offerings of the ancient
years"
The whole anti-pedobaptist theory
is based on the assumption thai
"Christ never had a church on eartt
till after his incarnation" and the
other assumption that ''faith must o.
necessity precede baptism" Blu
when we call for chapter and vers;
to show when Christ or the Apostle,
terganized church, Mr.. Duncan ant
| his friends are silent as the grave
Acts 8:37 is the first verse alway
brought out to prove that baptism
comes after faith. But that verse i
clearly spurious. 1t was SO marke,
by Alex. Campbell in 1882. Mar
1916 is often quoted. But that i
marked by the Revisers as yer,
. doubtful, if not certainly spurious
Mr.. Duncan complains, but 1 can
not stop for that. HIS entire syster
, is founded upon spurious Greek text
Or on perversions and mistranslation
of correct texts.
II Mr.. D. is very unfortunate in hi
, Quotations Of scripture. He stun
+ bled on the sth and 9th chapters c
Hebrew, both of which are fatal t
e his theory. In Heb. S-8 we reat
"Behold the days come, saith th
Lord, that will make a new cove
t nant n.a the house of Israel an
Q with the house of Judah" I'll
q word here rendered evil make" sis
r lnifes twill finish or fulfill; > the r
vised Version has complete" in Ii
t margin. The word is sunteleo and
] lis found only in Math. 1928; MAJ
l13-4; Luke 4, 2-13; Acts 21-2i
Y Rom. 9-28 and Heb. 8-8. The ''fnis
;. ling of the new covenant with Il
I. Ihouse of Israeli was in the death
e Christ. The Savlor's last wore
y we're cit is Finished" John 1913
y That covenant Is called the ae,u co
;. enant, because 1t never becomes ol
l. You will notice the promise, II W
Is be to them God and they shall
;, to me a people," Heb. S:10-t
is very promise the Lord made
r Abraham 4, 1000 years ago, Gen. IL:
le It is an everlasting covenant, hen
,e always new! No, no, Mr.. D., there
1t no room for your modern gospel
IT the new covenant, for that was ''wi
IF the house of Israel and the house
le JUDAH" There is one senten
m near the first of Mr.. DIS article
10 April Sth about which l feel &C
a strained to ask question. What
ID you mean by ''to swamp and ha
:" sole book" and what kind of
st "coral" do you intend? Please {
Of plain that sentence.
3 The LEDGER boys do splendid VIC
of for me, and I don't know how th
s. come to make such blunders in
a writing of man so liberal an
to use of epithets and nicknames
in other people. Mr.. DIS "feeble
ur marks in paper Of 22nd deserve
ST. reply at present. More amen.
ra L. GALLAHER
ity His Loss was Her Gain.
.sWeII. madam," said fashiona