Gold Nugget 306 - The Species of Living Death

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      Two individuals unite their lives, and enter into a fellowship the most intimate possible – to what end?  Surely that their natures may be raised to greater perfection, and that they may be better enabled to attain the ends of their existence.  This implies a certain harmony of disposition, an essential accordance in the views taken of life and its duties.  It is a union, as one has said, not merely between two creatures, but also between two spirits. …

      Where spiritual life is not destroyed, as we may hope that often it is not, yet nothing but harm can come from an association in every respect adverse to it.  How intolerable to a spiritual mind to endure “the blight of all sympathy, to be dragged down to earth, and forced to become frivolous and commonplace; to lose all zest and earnestness in life; to have heart and life degraded by mean and perpetually recurring sources of disagreement.” (F.W. Robertson)! 

      This is the species of living death to which unequal yoking not unfrequently leads.  The effects on offspring are also to be considered.  Yet such marriages are rushed into, and, in the prevalent anxiety to make marriage the stepping-stone to wealth and social position, seem likely to become increasingly numerous.  Would that men were wise, that they understood these things!

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Deuteronomy p. 146, Deuteronomy 7:3-4, (J. Orr)

 

Gold Nugget 306

The Species of Living Death

 

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