Gold Nugget 183 - Death of the Spiritual Eye
It is a law of nature that every disused part of an organism shall dwindle away and decay.
“There are certain burrowing animals – the mole, for instance – which have taken to spending their lives beneath the surface of the ground. And Nature has taken her revenge upon them in a thoroughly natural way – she has closed up their eyes. If they mean to live in darkness, she argues, eyes are obviously a superfluous function. By neglecting them, these animals made it clear that they did not want them. And as one of Nature’s fixed principles is that nothing shall exist in vain, the eyes are presently taken away, or reduced to a rudimentary state.
There are fishes which have had to pay the same terrible forfeit for having made their abode in dark caverns, where eyes can never be required. And in exactly the same way the spiritual eye must die and lose its power by purely natural law, if the soul choose to walk in darkness rather than light” (see Mr. Henry Drummond’s Natural Law in the Spiritual World’ pp. 110, 111).
The Pulpit Commentary, Isaiah II p. 122, Isaiah 42: 18-25, (G. Rawlinson)
Gold Nugget 183
Death of the Spiritual Eye
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