Notes On Old Testament
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | notes |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-notes-on-old-testament-1508 |
| Words | 399 |
Death is a grand secret We know not when or by what means we shall be brought to death: by what road we must go the way, whence we shall not return. We cannot describe what death is; how the knot is untied between soul and body, or how the spirit goes "To be we know not what, and live we know not how." With what dreadful curiosity does the soul launch out into an untried abyss We have no correspondence with separate souls, nor any acquaintance with their state. It is an unknown, undiscovered region, to which they are removed. While we are here in a world of sense, we speak of the world of spirits, as blind men do of colours, and when we remove thither, shall be amazed to find how much we were mistaken. Breadth - The whole compass and all the parts of it
Dwelleth - Hath its constant and settled abode. Whether goes the sun when it departs from this hemisphere Where is the tabernacle and the chamber in which he is supposed to rest And seeing there was a time when there was nothing but gross darkness upon the face of the earth, what way came light into the world Which was the place where light dwelt at that time, and whence was it fetched And whence came that orderly constitution and constant succession of light and darkness Was this thy work Or wast thou privy to it, or a counsellor, or assistant in it
Take it - Bring or lead it: and this it refers principally to the light, and to darkness, as the consequent of the other. Bound - Its whole course from the place of its abode whence it is supposed to come, to the end of its journey. Know - Where thou mayst find it, and whence thou mayst fetch it. Treasures - Dost thou know where I have laid up those vast quantities of snow and hail which I draw forth when I see fit
Trouble - When I intend to bring trouble upon any people for their sins. Distributed - In the air, and upon the face of the earth. This is variously distributed in the world, shining in one place and time, when it doth not shine in another, or for a longer time, or with greater brightness and power than it doth in another.