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v. 32. Jonathan answered, What hath he done? Love will often make us bold when under ordinary circum­ stances we should be timid.—Marsh. Consider no ties COMMENTS FROM where righteous- MANY SOURCES ness is in ques- Keith L. Brooks tion. There are secondary rights and there are primary rights. You are your father’s child and you say you ought to be filial and obedient. The spirit of righteousness says, “ No, ‘obey your parents in the Lord’.” Shall a man say, “ If it had been anybody but my father I should have taken another course” ?— People’s Bible. Generous spirits can much more easily bear to be abused themselves than to hear their friends abused. He was troubled for David whom he knew to be a friend of God, that he should be so basely abused. v. 33. Saul cast a javelin. The aw­ ful change that had taken place in Saul all came because he had rejected the word of the Lord. (15:23). The sad­ dest men on earth are those who are forced to say, “ I once knew what it meant to have the Lord with me, but He is not with me now.”— Torrey. Who can measure the descent in character from that hour when acclaimed by all the people for his bravery, humility and dependence on God, he stood every inch a king, to this hour when crazed by jeal­ ousy and blinded by suspicion, he would have taken the life of his own son, cov­ ering that son with the vomitings of a mind become foul and helpless in the grip of unclean passion?—Haldeman. How this illustrates Satan’s hatred both against Christ and those who are one with Him as David and Jonathan were one.—Anno. Bible. v. 34. Jonathan arose In fierce anger. He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin.— Seeker. Anger is implanted in us as a sort of sting to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to makes us ve­ hement against sin, not to set us in array against each other.— Savage. “ Be ye angry and sin not.” Therefore anger is not always sinful. Upon some occa­ sions it is inevitable.— Paley. Did eat no meat. David acknowledges the ex­ traordinary character of Jonathan’s love. (1:20). Here is the spinal cord of the Christian life— personal love to the Lord, the supreme object of our love and adoration. Get this devotion in your heart and for His sake you can go any­

where and do anything for Him.—Hal­ deman. He was grieved for David. Jon­ athan was heir apparent to the throne but David was the divinely chosen king, yet each quite lost sight of selfish am­ bition in his love for the other.— Torrey. Do we have such consuming love for our Lord Jesus, Christ? That is the way He has loved us. Like Jonathan who cared not for his inheritance nor for himself, Christ cared not for His place in heaven nor His equality with the Father but gave them up and came into this world and died for us that we might live. (Phil. 2:5-8; Rom. 5 :8 ).— Eliott. His father had done him shame. “ Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.” The old should be the inspiration and defense of the young. The father should be as God to the child. The child should look up with veneration to the Father. Here is a son getting up from his fa­ ther’s table in shame and grief. To such passes we may come. Can any­ thing be more pathetic than a son in the present of a great number of people ashamed of his father? How are you bringing up your children? When your son is ashamed of you, know that the time of your destruction draweth nigh. •—-Parker. v. 35. Went out at appointed time. Love is never late with its engagements. -—Marsh. v. 36. Run, find out the arrows. The lad who was with Jonathan and playing a part, little thought that he was a sign in his actions to the hidden David. What appears to be an ordinary event to a man of the world is often an extraordin­ ary event to the man who loves God__ Marsh. v. 37. Is not the arrow beyond thee? Are the arrows beyond thee? Be of good cheer. There is something beyond their farthest reach. God is beyond. A kingdom is beyond. Songs of over­ flowing ecstasy are beyond. Arise and go forth into the unknown. If thou take the wings of the morning thou canst not outstrip the love of God.— Meyer. That word “ beyond,” David knew the meaning of better than the lad.—Henry. v. 38. Make haste, stay not. How often we see moral or spiritual peril confronting those to whom we profess to be friends and yet we do not warn them.— Torrey. v. 40. His artillery. Hebrew, “ In­ struments”—weapons, here meaning the

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