耶和華站在梯子以上〔或譯:站在他旁邊〕,說:「我是耶和華─你祖亞伯拉罕的 神,也是以撒的 神;我要將你現在所躺臥之地賜給你和你的後裔。 13 There above it 28:13 Or ((There beside him)) stood the LORD, and he said: 「I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
March 3 "And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him." (Mark 9:26.) EVIL never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." ─Dr. J.H.Jowett. "Faith of our Fathers! living still, In spite of dungeon, fire and sword: O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene'er we hear that glorious word. Faith of our Fathers! Holy Faith! We will be true to Thee till death! "Our fathers, chained in prisons dark, Were still in heart and conscience free; How sweet would be their children's fate, If they, like them, could die for Thee!"