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The exhortation is that everything that is
evil, whether it have a good form or a bad form, is to
be resisted and opposed.... To abstain from every
appearance of evil is another thought—a different one from
what the Apostle’s words in the original would warrant;
nevertheless, they represent a sound principle. We surely
should abstain not only from evil things, whatever their
form or garb, but also we should abstain so far as
possible from doing things that we know to be good,
which our friends or neighbors might misunderstand and
consider to be evil things. The spirit of a sound mind dictates
that not only evil in its every form but also everything that
has an evil appearance, even, should be avoided, that
our influence for the Lord and the Truth may be the
greater. |
