Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Mr. W.M.F. Round relates how, in 1871, being engaged in a series of sketches of eminent Frenchmen, he wrote to Carlyle, asking for the name of an authority, and requested a single line to be enclosed in a directed envelope. In reply he received four pages of valuable information. Some time after, Mr. Round was in London — or, rather, in Cheyne Row — and saw his benefactor for the first time. He was in company with a friend who knew Carlyle, and who told him that Mr. Round was too modest and grateful to trespass on his time, upon which Mr. Carlyle made the following characteristic remark: "No man can trespass on my time who comes for anything, or who can take anything of use away. Only those who come for the less than nothing of looking at me are unwelcome. Come in." Parallel Verses KJV: Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
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