That which one does not use he really does not have, only appears to possess it. His enemies are the impenitent. It illustrated the necessity of fidelity to our God-given obligations ere Christ returns, which He shows would not be immediately. —There was bitter hostility between the Jews and the Samaritans. While their inhospitable conduct was a great indignity, especially in the Eastern countries, there appears here the clash in the long rivalry between
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