Matthew 12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Why it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. Men's estimate of God will maintain a certain proportion with their estimate of themselves. Even shadows keep a certain ratio with the objects that cast them. Christianity gives us a deepening sense of human worth, and through that deepened sense of human worth we reach a higher sense of God's worth, and theology is bound to expand along the brightening lines of the human self-consciousness; and the gospel and humanity play backward and forward upon one another, like the sun which brightens the eye so that it can see the sun; like the stars which wake up the eye so that it can find more of the stars. (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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