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NASB | Matthew 18:15 ¶ "If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 18:15 ¶ "If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens and pays attention to you, you have won back your brother. |
Subject: biblical ex. of how to rebuke a brother |
Bible Note: Deer Doc, I bet you thought you'd trip up this old Ozark mountain man when you used that word anodyne in the last pairagraf of yore post. Ha! No such luck. You docs ain't the only ones that knows a thang or two about anodyne. We've been using it on sores fer years. It stings some and makes a body's skin red, but it shore does a heap o' good. My maw, she always went for that little bottle of anodyne and smeared it all over my knee ever time I fell down and skint it, which was offen down here in these hills. I didn't take to it any too good though, on account of the anodyne, it hurt a heap worse than the skint knee ever dared to. But my maw she always said that medizen that didn't hurt a little warn't strong enough to do no good. She'd say the same thing about the parson's sermons. I expect they was a whole bunch of truth in some of them old sayings that my maw took a liking to. As I've done gone and got older I look back on them old sayings what come from the heart and soul of godly backwoods folks like my maw and paw was, and I marvel how easy it was for them to say more in a few simple words than it is for a lot of these moderns to say in a whole big book that has more pages than a dog has fleas. I read a book the other day by a feller who called hisself a theo-low-jin or something like that -- he was supposed to be some kind of a expert I reckon. By the time I got to the last page, my mind it was emptier than it was when commenced readin' on page 1. But I ought to of knowed better than to of read it to start with. The feller was a doctor of divinity, so it said on the flap of the book, and anybody with bat sense should know that a candy maker wouldn't be no expert on the ology stuff. --Hank |