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BATTLEA symbol of the conflict between mind and emotion, or the spiritually energised mental qualities and the desires, passions, and instincts of the lower nature. "Every struggle of the people of God against evil in this world must be fired with eternal principles, must be instinct with thoroughness and with justice. All the true battles of the earth really are God's battles, and are to be fought only in God's spirit and God's way. The old history of Israel and Edom sinks back into a parable. All that history was a crude and elementary utterance of the great truth that there must ever be, so long as the world remains imperfect and is struggling towards perfection, two parts of the world, one of which is God's and one which is not. What that chosen people represented is perpetual. There always is in the world some part of the world consecrated to the struggle to make the world divine. It is that part of the general humanity, that part of any race, nay, that part of any man- for even the individual life may be divided between God and the enemy of God- it is that part of human nature which is consecrated to God, and trying to do His will. That is the everlasting Israel. In more spiritual ways therefore, with less formality, more flexibly and freely, all that is said of God's relation to the Judaism of the Old Testament, must be the picture and the parable of the relation which God holds to all struggle after goodness, all effort of noble and devoted life everywhere and always." – PHILILPS BROOKS, Serm., The Sword Bathed in Heaven. |
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