6. What a contrast between the vain
words of man, and the pure words of Jehovah. Man’s words are yea and nay, but
the Lord’s promises are yea and amen. For truth, certainty, holiness,
faithfulness, the words of the Lord are pure as well-refined silver. In the
original there is an allusion to the most severely-purifying process known to
the ancients, through which silver was passed when the greatest possible purity
was desired; the dross was all consumed, and only the bright and precious metal
remained; so clear and free from all alloy of error or unfaithfulness is the
book of the words of the Lord. The Bible has passed through the furnace of
persecution, literary criticism, philosophic doubt, and scientific discovery,
and has lost nothing but those human interpretations which clung to it as alloy
to precious ore. What God’s words are, the words of his children should be. If
we would be Godlike in conversation, we must watch our language, and maintain
the strictest purity of integrity and holiness in all our communications.
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