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| Chapter XV.—Exhortation to confess Christ by silence as well as speech.
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Chapter XV.—Exhortation to confess
Christ by silence as well as speech.
It is better
for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be
one. It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts. There is then one
Teacher, who spake and it was done; while even those things which He did
in silence are worthy of
the Father. He who possesses the
word of Jesus, is truly able to hear even His very silence, that he may
be perfect, and may both act as he speaks, and be recognised by his
silence. There is nothing which is hid from God, but our very secrets are
near to Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him
dwelling in us, that we may be His temples,590
and He may be in us as our God, which indeed He is, and will
manifest Himself before our faces. Wherefore we justly love Him.
It is better
for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be
one. “The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.”591
Men “believe with the heart, and confess
with the mouth,” the one “unto righteousness,” the
other “unto salvation.”592
It is good
to teach, if he who speaks also acts. For he who shall both “do and
teach, the same shall be great in the kingdom.”593
Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, first
did and then taught, as Luke testifies, “whose praise is in the
Gospel through all the Churches.”594
There
is nothing which is hid from the Lord, but our very secrets are near to
Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us,
that we may be His temples,595
and He
may be in us as God. Let Christ speak in us, even as He did in Paul.
Let the Holy Spirit teach us to speak the
things of Christ in like manner as He did.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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