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Gad, one gate of Aslier, one gate of Naphtali. [It was]
round about eighteen thousand [measures]; and the
name of the city from [that] day [shall be], Jehovah
[is] there.” (Vers. 30-35.)
This then is the last and chief glory—the presence
of Jehovah in the city of His choice. In this Israel
shall boast above all their privileges; and justly, for it
is the complement and crown of all. How bright an
end of their long wanderings, and of their manifold
sorrows! How worthy of His redeeming grace, who
will cleanse away the guilt which shed it, when they
turn to Him in faith, discerning and owning at length
their self-destructive folly in the light of His love, who
never wavered but died for them so many centuries
before they broke down in shame and contrition before
Him!
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London: G. Morrish, 24, Warwick Lano, Paternoster Row*
