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From Meditations on the Epistles of John, by Samuel Froehlich
Even though Jesus bore record of Himself, yet it was no presumption but the
truth for He knew whence He had come as the Son of God, but if another person
would speak in that way about himself he would be a liar. But men like to betake
themselves to human authority and thereby become devoted to a party and are
deceived, and Paul, already in the early life of the Corinthian church, had to
repress this evil.
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, ...?
Let no one boast of men; they are too inconsiderable, as servants. We have not
yet attained to lordship; there is only one Lord over all, in heaven. We dare
not take any man except Christ Himself—and only Christ—as our Pattern; otherwise
one would even be worse than the other and each one would comfort himself with
someone who is worse.
However, when an apostle witnesses by Christ’s Spirit of Truth and those who
teach and those who hear it, find exactly the same testimony of the Spirit in
them, these then know that they are in the truth and have the Spirit of Christ.
It is true, we no longer have any apostles in person among us, but in their
place we have their written word of Christ, and if we now come before this
testimony and examine ourselves according to it, the inner testimony (Christ in
us) is then either in harmony with it, or if we have not the Spirit and Life of
Christ in us, we do not understand the written word, and in that case men read
it like an almanac and fiction or not at all.
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By Timeless FaithFrom Meditations on the Epistles of John, by Samuel Froehlich
Even though Jesus bore record of Himself, yet it was no presumption but the
truth for He knew whence He had come as the Son of God, but if another person
would speak in that way about himself he would be a liar. But men like to betake
themselves to human authority and thereby become devoted to a party and are
deceived, and Paul, already in the early life of the Corinthian church, had to
repress this evil.
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, ...?
Let no one boast of men; they are too inconsiderable, as servants. We have not
yet attained to lordship; there is only one Lord over all, in heaven. We dare
not take any man except Christ Himself—and only Christ—as our Pattern; otherwise
one would even be worse than the other and each one would comfort himself with
someone who is worse.
However, when an apostle witnesses by Christ’s Spirit of Truth and those who
teach and those who hear it, find exactly the same testimony of the Spirit in
them, these then know that they are in the truth and have the Spirit of Christ.
It is true, we no longer have any apostles in person among us, but in their
place we have their written word of Christ, and if we now come before this
testimony and examine ourselves according to it, the inner testimony (Christ in
us) is then either in harmony with it, or if we have not the Spirit and Life of
Christ in us, we do not understand the written word, and in that case men read
it like an almanac and fiction or not at all.