Editorial February 16, 1981 Issue

The demand for demonstration

DeWITT JOHN

What did Jesus mean?

Crowds thronged him. He turned and told an unusual parable: "Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him...."

Then he added a further illustration: "What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?...."

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