presents the two ways in Eden, the choice given to man for blessedness is clearly the broad and easy way. Our Lord, however, tells a fallen world, that the way to the Lord, i.e., the Lord’s way of faithfulness, of obedience, is “the strait gate” (Matt. 7:13–14). The word translated as strait is in the Greek stenos, from a root meaning to groan. We have the word in English as stenographer, literally, narrow writing, with a narrow time limit, and hence, figuratively, with groaning. What for Adam was
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