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| Chapter LVI.—Let us admonish and correct one another.
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Chapter LVI.—Let us admonish and
correct one another.
Let us then also pray for
those who have fallen into any sin, that meekness and humility may be
given to them, so that they may submit, not unto us, but to the will of
God. For in this way they shall secure a fruitful and perfect remembrance
from us, with sympathy for them, both in our prayers to God, and our
mention of them to the saints.247
| 247 Literally, “there shall be to them a fruitful and
perfect remembrance, with compassions both towards God and the
saints.” | Let us receive correction, beloved, on account
of which no one should feel displeased. Those exhortations by which we
admonish one another are both good [in themselves] and highly profitable,
for they tend to unite248
us to the will of God. For thus
saith the holy Word: “The Lord hath severely chastened me, yet hath
not given me over to death.”249
“For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom He receiveth.”250
“The righteous,” saith it,
“shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of
sinners make fat my head.”251
And again
he saith, “Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and reject
not thou the warning of the Almighty.
For He causes
sorrow, and again restores [to gladness]; He woundeth, and His hands make
whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea, in the seventh no evil
shall touch thee. In famine He shall rescue thee from death, and in war
He shall free thee from the power252
of the sword.
From the scourge of the tongue will He hide thee, and thou shalt not fear
when evil cometh. Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the wicked, and
shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the field. For the wild beasts shall
be at peace with thee: then shalt thou know that thy house shall be in
peace, and the habitation of thy tabernacle shall not fail.253
| 253 Literally, “err”
or “sin.” | Thou shall know also that thy seed
shall be great, and thy children like the grass of the field. And thou
shall come to the grave like ripened corn which is reaped in its season,
or like a heap of the threshing-floor which is gathered together at the
proper time.”254
Ye see, beloved,
that protection is afforded to those that are chastened of the Lord; for
since God is good, He corrects us, that we may be admonished by His holy
chastisement.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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