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 which could only be renewed by placing it in conjunction with the love of truth, represented by Moses putting his hand again into his bosom, and thus restoring it to life.

UT why was this apparently zealous aspirant for the blessings of eternal life, commanded by the Lord to sell all that he had, before giving it away to the poor? Could he not have imparted his possessions immediagely to the poor and needy, without the preliminary process of selling them? The spiritual sense helps, us to the solution of this question. To sell, denotes alienation; as its counterpart, to buy, denotes appropriation. In the present case, the young man was commanded to divest himself of what he valued as his highest riches, or, in other words, to reject the falses, which were the doctrines of the Jewish nation, and receive the doctrine of truth from the Lord. Selling, therefore, in the spiritual sense, implies simply alienation, without involving the idea of a price, or an equivalent; consequently, the giving his posscssions to the poor, was itself the selling enjoined by the Lord. This is confirmed by the parallel meaning in regard to buy, which denotes appropriation without the exchange which enters into the ordinary or external sense of the term.

To buy, signifies to procure for one's self, and