Matthew 12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Why it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. A man's moral corruption is index of the native moral grandeur of the man; just as the wealth of weeds in a field, equally with the wealth of wheat in the same field, measures the potency and richness of the soil. The strength of the spring can be calculated as well by the distance which the pendulum swings to the left of the perpendicular, as by the distance of its swing to the right. There is the same degree of sinfulness in a sin as there is of personal worth in the man that commits it. Here, too, the shadow keeps a ratio with the object that casts it; and the blackness of the shadow will vary with the brightness of the sunshine that gets excluded. (C. H. Parkhurst.) Parallel Verses KJV: How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. |
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