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N Christian Science we learn that the substitution of the spiritual for the material definition of a Scriptural word often elucidates the meaning of the inspired writer. On this account this chapter is added. It contains the metaphysical interpretation of Bible terms, — giving their spiritual sense, which is also their original meaning.

Watchfulness; self-offering; surrendering to the Creator the early fruits of experience.

Fidelity; faith in the divine Life and eternal Principle of Being.

This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to create trust in Good, and showed the life-preserving power of spiritual understanding.

Error; a falsity; the belief in “original sin,” sickness, and death; evil; the opposite of Good, or God, and His creation; a curse; a belief in intelligent matter, finiteness, and mortality; “dust to dust;” red sandstone; nothingness; the first god of mythology; not God's man, who represents the one God, and is His own