REFERENCES
1 The brother who referred to the theory of the uncreated origin of life as " spontaneous combustion " did not enhance our reputation!
2 "The word of prophecy made more sure " of 2 Pet. 1 is essentially of this kind: we look confidently to the achievement of the rest, having seen so much fulfilled.
3 e.g., 2 Tim. 4.
4 Jesus's declamations were always to the point: " Whereunto shall I liken this generation? " (Luke 7: 31).
5 e.g., Isa. 1, much of Jeremiah and Ezekiel (e.g., chapter 16), the most part of Hosea, and large parts of Amos and Micah (e.g., chapters 1, 2 and 6) ; Acts 2 : 22-23 ; 3 : 14-15 ; 14:15; 17 : 22-23 ; Luke 4: 23-27 ; 11 : 39-44 and much else.
6 James 4: If.
7 Matt. 7: 16-20.
8 Chapter 1 suggests some of the matters on which discipline is called for. The deceitfulness of petty sin is so successful that brethren have been heard to say to each other, " The law punishes, not for what you do wrong, but for what it finds out", as a cloak for safe iniquity. Note carefully Rom. 2: 24 ; I Tim. 6:1; Titus 2 : 5.
9 The useful summary pamphlet of this title suffers from this very fault.
It offers the Truth as a set of contradictions : "If you believe this . . . You're wrong! "
10 1 Kings 18:21.
11 Mark 10: 17 ; Acts 16 : 30 ; Jude 3 ; John 14 : 6 ; 1 Cor. 2:2; Isa. 32 : 1.
12 Matt. 3:2; 4: 17 ; Mark 1 : 15.
13 e.g., Repent and repentance are generally derived from metanoeo which implies a reversal of outlook and is an essential prelude to acceptable faith, but sometimes from metamellomai, conveying the sense of regret as we now use " repent," as in 2 Cor. 7:8.
14 A stock example in books on public speaking, and a very good one, is Mark Antony's funeral address in Shakespeare's " Julius Caesar," beginning, " Friends, Romans and countrymen,..." Note the power of the continued ironic repetition: '' And Brutus is an honourable man." Similar refrains can often be used with effect. A lecture on the duty of an obedient approach to God gave a number of scriptural illustrations, and punctuated them with "I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me" (Lev. 10: 3) so that each lesson had its meaning impressed.
15 Elohim (El, Eloah), or the Aramaic form Elah in Ezra and parts of Daniel; either when " God " occurs alone, or in the combination " lord God." But in the combination " Lord god " the word stands for Yahweh, notably in Ezekiel. There is thus no warrant at all for refusing the word God as a general title on account of a supposed particular usage.
16 S. F. Wicks, " Public Speaking for Business Men," p. 47
17 Matt. 23: 27.
18 Lycidas
19 1 Cor. 13:1.
20 S. F. Wicks, " Public Speaking for Business Men," p. 20.
21 ibid, p. 19.
22 ibid, p. 35
23 Dan 2.
24 A lecture to enforce the lesson of baptism was so designed : the stories of Cain, Nadab and Abihu, Moses striking the rock, and Naaman, were simply drawn, with the refrain mentioned in reference 14 ; and the positive contrast was then presented with similar word-pictures of the Baptism of Jesus, and the Ethiopian Eunuch, and a soberly imaginative reconstruction of another, with typical men and women confronted with the Eunuch's opportunity.
25 Gen. 4.
26 Gen. 6.
27 Gen. 12: 1.
28 Gen. 22 : 1-18.
29 2 Sam. 12:3
30 Gal. 4 : 24.
31 Matt. 13, 11: 16, etc. The parable of the Pounds seems to be based on the well-known history of Archelaus.
32 From " Pyramus and Thisbe " in " A Midsummer Night's Dream.^ Quoted in this sense by Spurgeon, " Lectures to my Students," p. 165.
33 ibid, p. 157.
34 ibid, p. 152. :
35 Acts 23:6
36 Acts 17:16.
37 Elpis Israel, pages 442-446.
38 "The Uniqueness of Man," p. 6: " The human type has maintained its dominance without splitting: man's variety has been achieved within the limits of a single species." cf. Acts 17: 26.
39 Thus, in a " speakers' class " lecture, the lecturer was criticized for giving the dictionary definition of "repent" as "feel regret," which does scant justice to the meaning of metanoed (see reference 13).
40 This demands the scrupulous honesty already insisted on. The evidence must be available on demand.
41 Gen. 3: 4.
42 The famous " Extra ecclesiam nulla salus " is much watered down nowadays for Protestant consumption. But the Roman Church is inconsistent on this matter. An official Bull of Boniface VIII, in which " we declare, say, define and pronounce, that to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is for every human being an absolute necessity of salvation " (Unam Sanctam, 1302) stands in continual witness.