course? Then let the voice be heard once more in tender seriousness—Moreover, by these, my son, be admonished. (Chap. 12:12.) On no account therefore could we have spared this book from the canon. It has its own sphere of instruction—and that—as we have before hinted—of no common value. Does not its full development of this world’s delusions excite us to search for the true rest? The water of gall, springing up from the “broken cisterns,” stirs up the search for “the Fountain of living waters.” May
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