oil. They knocked; they begged for entrance, but He from within only answered, “I don’t know you.” This, as has been shown by Dean Alford, is very different from the more terrible sentence addressed to others, “I never knew you.” It is simply an intimation that they are not in the circle of His intimate personal friendship. He does not exclude them from salvation, but he excludes them from the place of the Bride, and the innermost center of His communion and love. What constitutes a bride? It is