Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. If we had eyes adapted to the sight, we should see on looking into the smallest seed the future flower or tree enclosed in it. God will look into our feelings and motives as into seeds; by those embryos of action He will infallibly determine what we are, and will show what we should have been, had there been scope and stage for their development and maturity. Nothing will be made light of. The very dust of the balances shall be taken into account. It is in the moral world as in the natural, Where every substance weighs something; though we speak of imponderable bodies, yet nature knows nothing of positive levity; and were men possessed of the necessary scales, the requisite instrument, we should find the same holds true in the moral world. Nothing is insignificant on which sin has breathed the breath of hell; everything is important on which holiness has impressed itself in the painted characters, and accordingly, "there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and bid that shall not be known." (J. Harris.) Parallel Verses KJV: TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.WEB: TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. |
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