Article July 24, 1971 Issue

Words of Current Interest

Related to the Lesson-Sermon for August 1, 1971, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: Love

I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth (Rom. 8:38, 39)

Paul had begun the answer to his own question in verse 35 ("Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?") by denying that any suffering could do so. According to The Interpreter's Bible: "Now his answer becomes more universal, including every possible factor, earthly or cosmic.... Height and depth are astrological terms—'height' (hupsoma) meaning the highest position a given star attains and 'depth' (bathos) the abyss below the horizon out of which the stars rise. Stars— depending upon their position— were popularly supposed to exercise certain effects upon the course of human events."

When he is tried (James 1:12)

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