Verse 5. Ye also, as lively stones, be made a spiritual house, an holy Priest-hood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.Verse 5. Ye also, as liuely stones, be made a spirituall house, an holy Priest-hood, to offer vp spirituall sacrifices, acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.
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Verse 5. Ye also, as lively stones, be made a spiritual house, an holy Priest-hood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Verse 5. Ye also, as liuely stones, be made a spirituall house, an holy Priest-hood, to offer vp spirituall sacrifices, acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.
As lively stones.]
As liuely stones.]
IT is not unusual in Scripture, to compare men to stones: and so both wicked men and godly men.
IT is not vnusuall in Scripture, to compare men to stones: and so both wicked men and godly men.
Wicked men are likened to stones, first, for their insensibleness: and so the heart of Nabal was like a stone. Secondly▪ for their silent amazement, when iniquity shall stop their mouth: thus they were still as a stone, Ex. 15.16. Thirdly, for their sinking down under Gods judgements: so the Egyptians sunk into the sea like a stone, Exod. ⟨p. 141⟩15.6. And thus the wicked sink into hell like a stone. But chiefly in the first sense, for hardness of heart: their hearts by nature are like a stone. And in the comparison of a building, if they be in the Church, they are like the stones of the house that had the leprosy, or like Jerusalem when it was made a heap of stones.