“Behold Me then, Me for him, life for life I offer. On Me let thine anger fall. Account Me man… On Me let Death wreck all his rage!” Paradise Lost III.236-41
"Sin shall never be our master
Captives of Thy blessed grace
Offering our lives hereafter
We resolve to seek Thy face"
— None But Thee // Young Oceans
Captives of Thy blessed grace...
“The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.”
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
“And [Jesus] hast aveng’d
Supplanted Adam, and by vanquishing
Temptation, hast regain’d Paradise…
A fairer Paradise is founded now
For Adam and his chosen Sons, whom thou
A Saviour art come down to re-install.
Where they shall dwell secure.”
Milton, Paradise Regain’d
Jesus: “Man shall find grace!… He her aid can never seek once dead in sins and lost: atonement for himself or offering meet, indebted and undone, hath nothing to bring.
Behold Me then, Me for him, life for life.”
Paradise Lost 3.227
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“[The wicked] give God no part of their lives, and he is in none of their thoughts. The godly man, however, does not consider first how the world regards a thing but how God looks at it.”
Spurgeon on Psalm 1:1
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“Everyone is seeking happiness. If that is true, then everyone should read this psalm, for it directs us where happiness is to be found in its highest degree and purest form…. 1/4
“His position has nothing to do with it. His character has everything to do with it. The happy man is described as one who avoids the way of wicked persons…. 3/4
“You were dead in your trespasses and sins… But God, being rich in mercy… raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:1, 4, 6
“It is as if we had been brought from the deepest hell to heaven itself.” Calvin
“And they devoted themselves to the apostle’s teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” Acts 2:42
Devoted: προσκαρτερουντες - participle
Ergo,
“And they WERE DEVOTING themselves to...”
Constant, continual devotion to the Lord’s Word and Church.