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Let us make a parable of the story and use the text as a motto of a deeper theme. Fifty-two Sundays and their work.

I. HOW QUICKLY THEY PASS.

II. WHAT OPPORTUNITIES THEY FURNISH.

1. Of rest.

2. Of spiritual friendship.

3. Of Divine instruction.

4. Of moral renewal.

III. WHAT RESULTS THEY LEAVE.

1. In memory.

2. In life.

3. For judgment.Application

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1. Thank God for the day of days.

2. Use each day as it comes.

3. Determine upon a rounded result for each cycle of fifty-two.

(Homiletic Commentary.)

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Parallel Verses

KJV: So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

WEB: So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.