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promise. ''Whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth?" | shall not change a.
word of the bible in order to explain
this, but will call your attention to
something you all know, namely, that
something you al know, namely, that
the Bible which we read is a translation
into English from the original tongues,
made by number of men chosen Tor
that purpose by King James of Eng
land. The Greek verb paideuo, trans
lated by these men into English as
"chasten," means to instruct or direct,
and nothing else. Liddle and Scott in
their Greek Lexicon give as the first
meaning of this word, "To rear or
bring up children" Joseph Henry
Thayer, Professor of New Testament
Criticism in the Harvard Divinity
School, says that in classic Greek it
means "to train children" In his
"Memorabilia" Xenophon uses this word
in the passage, "He trained both soul
and body"
While the preponderance of opinion
amongst commentators is that paideuo
in New Testament usage means to
chasten, Liddell and Scott, Thayer and
Cremer all state that chasten is not
the original meaning of this word, but
is a later or derived meaning, and
! Cremer adds the statement that it is
an ecclesiastical one. The facts are,
that in | Timothy, l:2O,2 Timothy 2:25,
and Titus, 2:l2, the verb paideuo in
the King James version is respectively
translated learn literally, be taughtl,
"nstruct," teach In Hebrews, 1919
the noun paideutas is rendered by
Cremer as instructor or teacher
1t seems unreasonable to assume
that among contemporary writer's upon
the same subject, given word could
have been used with such widely diff
ferent meanings. Of course words
change materially from entury to cen
fury, but this would not explain the
variation in the use of the word be
tween the epistle to the Hebrews, writ
ten in ga A. d., and the letters tt
Timothy and Titus, written in So ant
&C A. d.. respectively. When this pas
sage, "Whom the Lord loveth he chast
eneth,'' is rendered into English as il
is literally written in classic Greek i
would read. "Whom the Lord loveth h,
instructeth." and it thus becomes an
other proof of the Christian Scienc,
teaching as to the abnormal nature o
sin, which Christ destroyed in confor
1 nify with Tho low of God
Temptation Never from God.
In order that there may be sin ther,
must be temptation and in order tina
there may be temptation there mus
be SIM and they both must proceed
from the same source Is this source
God or mankind? If it be God, we ar
lost! If it be mankind, we are saved
Let this question be answered for III
by James and John James writes
Let no man say when he is tempted
L am tempted of God: for God canno
be tempted with evil, neither tempted
he any man: but every man is tempted
when he is drawn away of his own lust
and enticed. Then when lust hail
conceived, it bringeth forth sin: anc
sin, when it is finished, bringeth fortl
DEATH" John writes, whatsoever il
born of God land as God is the only
reator, none is truly born nor may be
unless he is born of God) doth not
commit sin; for his seed remaineth il
him: and he cannot sin, because he i;
born of God" Dare we. in the face o.
James statement that lust is the orr
gin of sin, and Johns statement that
whatsoever is born of God can
ever again associate the name or ma
ture of God with sin?
! Paul says that God is no respecto,
OF persons" Do we believe this? Most
of us will say to ourselves. "Oh. yes:'
but let us see if we do. So long a,
we believe sin, desease, and death t.
be real, just SO long do we believe that
God, either directly or indirectly. is
responsible for them As we look
around us and see one man afflicted q
| say it advisedly) with millions OF
money, another with the direst prov
erty; one having perfect health, an
other with lhealth, one with ioy
unspeakable, and another with misery
and woe and despair,-if any of us are
having to meet the poverty, the despair
or the ill-health, can we from the
bottom of our hearts say we believe
that GOD is no respecter of persons
Some one near to us is tricken with a
mortal illness, and we kneel and pray
that the illness may be taken from the
loved one; that the person may live
If this illness is from God, it is good
and why do we pray that he or she
may be relieved from tiff it is good
If we believe that God sent the sick
ness, and yet pray that it be re.
moved, that the afflicted person NAV
live, has not the physician who is at
tending that patient-if he believes that
God sent the disease-just as much
right to pray to God, at the same
time, that the illness may continue in
order that he may live?
Scientific Prayer.
| Mankind says God is immutable and
changeless, but hundreds and millions
of times every day men are beseecbino
the immutable and changeless God to
change, change, change until mankind