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We are never to take up
or to use evil words or methods or manners. To do so is temporarily
to join the enemy, or to admit that his implements and methods are
better than those of the Captain to whom we belong. To answer anger
with anger, evil report with evil report, bitter words with bitter
words, slander with slander, persecution with persecution, blow with
blow, or any of these, would be to endeavor to overcome evil with
evil. This, which is natural to our fallen natures, is what we are
commanded to avoid, that we may the more thoroughly cultivate the
new nature. To be misled by the Adversary to use his methods in any
of these ways is to be overcome by evil. |
