Acts 5:38-39 And now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nothing:… "Gibbon, Voltaire, Chesterfield, Hume, and Paine," said an unbeliever, "are the champions of infidelity. Their works completely overthrow Christianity." "What!" said a Christian; "overthrow Christianity! Are you aware of the way in which the Most High God has thwarted their designs and overruled their evil purposes? Let me tell you that in Gibbon's hotel at Lake Leman is a room where Bibles are sold. The printing-press from which Voltaire's infidel works were issued has been used to print the Word of God. Chesterfield's parlour, once an infidel club-room, is now a vestry, where Christians meet for prayer anti praise. Hume predicted the death of Christianity in twenty years, but he has gone to his grave, and the first meeting of the Bible Society in Edinburgh was held in the room where the prince of sceptics died. Paine, on landing at New York, was foolish enough to prophesy that in five years not a Bible would be found in the United States. But it is a fact that there are more Bible Societies to-day in America than in any other country in the world." The unbeliever was silenced. (J. L. Nye.) Parallel Verses KJV: And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: |
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