41. All that pass by the way spoil him. Woe is
the day when every petty reasoner has an argument against religion, and men in
their cups are fluent with objections against the Gospel of Jesus. Although
Jesus on the cross is nothing to them, and they pass him by without inquiring
into what he has done for them, they can loiter as long as you will, if there
be but the hope of driving another nail into his hands. He is a reproach to his neighbors. David’s successors had neighbors who were a reproach to good
fellowship, because they were so ready to reproach their neighbor. The people
of God, who follow the Lord fully, are subject to a thousand reproaches, and
some of them of the most bitter kind. These reproaches are really the reproach
of Christ, and at bottom are meant for him.
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