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Rh a good or true thing is used also as the name of the opposite evil. The Lord said, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees," by which He meant not their bread, but their false doctrines.

Again, it is written, "The floods have come in unto my soul," "but the Lord is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea."

Here we notice that the floods mean the false doctrine of worldliness.

Love is called fire, because love warms the heart. But the heart may be heated in rage, which heat is called hell fire. The context clearly shows whether a virtue is meant or that virtue perverted, which is its opposite. So throughout the Word as to every jot and tittle.

Now let us observe the law of correspondence in its application to a continuous portion of Scripture.

Genesis is not intended to describe the creation of the material heaven and earth. The earth herself is a book having her