Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children… In Charles Kingsley's Life there is a story of a madman who declared that the devil had got hold of him, and would not let him sleep. "The surgeon," says Kingsley, "came to me and said, 'As I cannot cure the man's mind by making his liver act, you must make his liver act by curing his mind.' So I went to the patient and agreed with him fully that the devil was in him. 'And I will tell you,' I said, 'why he is. It is because you have been a scoundrel. But if you will lead a new and honest life you may snap your finger at the devil.'" The "devil" left him presently, and the man was cured. So resolution may expel the devil of worry, even after the nerves are more or less broken. (T. M. Coan, M. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? |
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