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I was astonished that although I now loved You… I did not persist in enjoyment of my God. Your beauty drew me to You, but soon I was dragged away from You by my own weight and in dismay, I plunged again into the things of this world... as though I had sensed the fragrance of the fare but was not yet able to eat it.
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    • Spurgeon PS1839

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    Spurgeon PS1839

    EXPOSITION.

    39,40. It is impossible to be too frequent in the duty of ascribing all our victories to the God of our salvation. It is true that we have to wrestle with our spiritual antagonists, but the triumph is far more the Lord’s than ours. We must not boast like the ambitious votaries of vainglory, but we may exult as the willing and believing instruments in the Lord’s hands of accomplishing his great designs.

    EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.

    Verse 39.–To be well girt was to be well armed in the Greek and Latin idioms, as well as in the Hebrew.–^Alexander Geddes, LL.D., 1737-1802.

    HINTS TO PREACHERS.

    Verse 39.–The Red Cross Knight armed for the fray.

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