Select Notes on the International Sabbath School Lessons Volume . 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ... to his people, and darkness to his enemies. The sea opens before those who love him, and overwhelms those who do not.--Fact bear us out. God has been proved a thousand times. And it has always been true, as it always will be, that the best success is with paid tithes. The windows of heaven never open to stingy Christians, Those who can find no time to pray will find no blessing poured out without measure. Those who rob God of the time that should be spent in his service will grow poorer and weaker by their gains. No man can succeed in robbing God.--P. Windows of heaven. The copious blessing is here com pared to rain coming down from heaven.--Packard. The windows of heaven are the openings through which the blessing will come, not by handfuls, but as poured out of open windows. Pour you out. "Empty out" as if God meant that he would empty forth his vast reservoirs of blessings.--Cowles. The image is from a vessel completely emptied of its contents; no blessing kept back.--J.F.andJB. That there shall not be room enough. In this clause, our translators found it necessary to Italicise too many words--a common indication that they did not clearly see the primary sense of the passage. The word they rendered " that" never has this meaning, but means until. The Hebrew of this clause is the same as in Ps. 72: 7, " abundance of peace until" (there is) "no moon;M translated "so long as the moon endureth."--Cowles. Literally translated the phrase would be, " to not a bare sufflrioncy," i.e., above what is sufficient, to superabundance.--Cook. 11. I will rebuke the devourer, &c. This verse describes in detail what blessings Jehovah's coming will bring with it. Jehovah will take away every thing which would inju...