received Him as the Lord, and surely no seduction would ever lead them to discrown Him, and transfer their fealty to one of the crowded and spectral myriads which composed the celestial hierarchy—one of a dim and cloudy mass which was indistinct from its very number, surrounding the throne, but never daring to depute any of its members to ascend it. “As ye have received Him, walk in Him.” The particle ὡς denotes something more than a reason, for it indicates manner—“according as.” Matt. 8:13; Luke
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