Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now on walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,… A German writer says that the king's daughter had a very learned man come every day to instruct her in the sciences. He was very weak and sickly, dwarfed and deformed. One day the king's daughter said to him, "How is it that you, a man with so much intelligence and such a wonderful intellect, should have such a miserable body?" The teacher made no answer, but he said, "Bring us some wine." The order was given, the wine was brought, and they drank it. He said, "This is very pleasant wine; in which kind of vat do you keep it?" She said, "In an earthen vat." "Oh," he said, "it is strange that in such a beautiful palace as your father has he should have wine in an earthen vat. Why don't you put it in a gold or silver vat?" The king's daughter said, "So it shall be." One day the learned man was teaching the king's daughter, and he said, "I am weary — bring me some wine." The wine was ordered. He tasted it; it was sour. He said, "This is miserable wine. What is the matter with it?" She said, "I cannot understand it, for we have the wine in a golden vat." "Ah!" he said, "that's what's the matter with it; that's what has spoiled and soured it. Now," he said, turning to the king's daughter, "I will explain why God puts my mind in such a miserable body. Had He put my mind in a body that was golden, beautiful, and imposing, I should have been spoiled with vanity; but He put me in an earthen vessel, and so I have been kept humble." (Dr. Talmage.) Parallel Verses KJV: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, |
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