When the Psalmist wrote, “I will lift up my eyes unto the hills,” he was doubtless contemplating the hills of Jerusalem, which from below, with their battlemented walls, presented a formidable barrier to unlawful entry. But with a deeper than …
“MEN AND WOMEN ARE CONTENT WITH THE WORLD OF THE VALLEYS, BUT THE CHRISTIAN MUST CLIMB OUT OF THE COMMON PLACE ; HE MUST . . .”
AFTER many years of great effort and even loss of life, the world’s …
Certain natural features on the earth are of great significance in the eyes of God. The sea and other bodies of water have often been connected with important happenings, and have symbolized the power of saving or cleansing. The rainbow …
INDUSTRY and commerce require the sons of men to dwell on the plains and in the many valleys that are hot and shadowed by the wall of high hills about them. It is not surprising, therefore, that in time of …
Paul’s allegory of the two mountains is in fact a multiple allegory, involving two women, two seeds and the two mountains. In introducing the figure he says, “Which things are an allegory”. It is necessary, therefore, to discover what is …