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LL Scripture being given by inspiration of God, and the words we have selected being part of God's Word, they also must be considered as divinely inspired. And if all Scripture abounds with doctrinal truth, as the apostle has declared, then there is doctrine in the passage before us; and rightly understood and applied, it will reprove us when we sin; correct us when we are in error; and when sin and error are removed, thoroughly furnish us unto all good works.

The sword of the Lord is not a carnal weapon, but it is mighty to the pulling down of strongholds. The Lord, in the literal sense of the Word, appeared not as an Apollyon, but as a Saviour; He came not to destroy the world, but to save the world. His very name of Jesus declared His quality, and the sword which He, the Prince of Peace, girded upon His thigh as the Most Mighty, was not the glittering weapon of the plume-crowned warrior, but the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. This, at His first coming, He manifested, or laid bare, in theflesh of His humanity; and by the power with which He wielded its truths, He so brought life and immortality to light, that he who had no sword was convinced of the necessity of selling his garment that he might buy one. By the power of this Divine truth, the Lord coped with the direst enemies of man; and by the application of His truth