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Chapter III.
Before proceeding to the next point, it may be
well for us to see whether we do not accept with approval the saying,
“No man can serve two masters,” with the addition,
“for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he
will hold to the one, and despise the other,” and further,
“Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”4843
The defence of this passage will lead
us to a deeper and more searching inquiry into the meaning and
application of the words “gods” and
“lords.” Divine Scripture teaches us that there is
“a great Lord above all gods.”4844
And by this name “gods” we
are not to understand the objects of heathen worship (for we know that
“all the gods of the heathen are demons”4845
), but the gods mentioned by the prophets as
forming an assembly, whom God “judges,” and to each of whom
He assigns his proper work. For “God standeth in the
assembly of the gods: He judgeth among the gods.”4846
For “God is Lord
of gods,” who by His
Son “hath called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the
going down thereof.”4847
We are also
commanded to “give thanks to the God of gods.”4848
Moreover, we are taught that
“God is not the God of the dead, but of the
living.”4849
Nor are these
the only passages to this effect; but there are very many
others.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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