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PREFACEWe
have
before us fifty-two weekly meditations for the day of
rest, that is to
say, for the eve of the Lord’s Day, corresponding to
each of the
fifty-two weeks of the year, and leading the reader to
consider a theme
at a time. May the Lord bless them and bring believers
in the Lord
Jesus Christ to a deeper appreciation of His Person, His
work for us
and in us, and of the Hope He has left us, till He come;
may we also
undertake, with a renewed desire, “to serve the living
and true God;
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from
the dead, even
Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1
Thessalonians
1:9-10) (1 Tesalonicenses 1:9-10).
J. N. Darby published many works of bible exposition, a number of poems and hymns, and wrote an impressive amount of letters with themes of the Christian faith. Regarding this, it is important to let him give his own thoughts about his own efforts to teach the Word of God, in his own words as penned in the Introduction to his Synopsis on the Books of the Bible: Though a commentary may doubtless aid the reader in many passages in which God has given to the commentator to understand in the main the intention of the Spirit of God, or to furnish philological principles and information, which facilitate to another the discovery of that intention; yet if it pretend to give the contents of scripture, or if he who uses it seeks these in its remarks, such commentary can only mislead and impoverish the soul. A commentary, even if always right, can at most give what the commentator has himself learned from the passage. The fullest and wisest must be very far indeed from the living fulness of the divine word. The Synopsis now presented has no pretension of the kind. Deeply convinced of the divine inspiration of the scriptures, given to us of God, and confirmed in this conviction by daily and growing discoveries of their fulness, depth, and perfectness; even more sensible, through grace, of the admirable perfection of the parts, and the wonderful connection of the whole, the writer only hopes to help the reader in the study of them. …” And it is with this thought of directing the reader
to the
meditation of the Scriptures and thus to come closer
to our Lord Jesus
Christ that we publish this selection of thoughts,
meditations, poems
and letters of a believer who loved the Lord and who
wanted to help his
brethren in their common walk of following Christ. S. Escuain
Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the
Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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