Zechariah 11:1-2 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.… The cedar is the most useful when dead. It is the most productive when its place knows it no more. There is no timber like it. Firm in grain, and capable of the finest polish, the tooth of no insect will touch it, and time himself can hardly destroy it. Diffusing a perpetual fragrance through the chamber which it ceils, the worm will not corrode the book which it protects, nor the moth corrupt the garment which it guards — all but immortal itself, it transfuses its amaranthine qualities into the objects around it. Every Christian is useful in his fife, but the goodly cedars are the most useful afterwards. Luther is dead, but the Reformation fives. Parallel Verses KJV: Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.WEB: Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. |
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