Galatians 5:15. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
When dogs and wolves bite one another, it is according to their nature; but it is bad indeed when sheep take to biting one another. If I must be bitten at all, let me rather be bitten by a dog than by a sheep. That is to say, the wounds inflicted by the godly are far more painful to bear, and last much longer, than those caused by wicked men. Besides, we can say with the psalmist, "It was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it." It is natural that the serpent’s seed should nibble at our heel, and seek to do us injury; but when the bite comes from a brother, - from a child of God, then it is peculiarly painful. Well might the apostle write, "If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." I have lived long enough to see churches absolutely destroyed, not by any external attacks, but by internal contention.
Galatians 5:15. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
When dogs and wolves bite one another, it is according to their nature; but it is bad indeed when sheep take to biting one another. If I must be bitten at all, let me rather be bitten by a dog than by a sheep. That is to say, the wounds inflicted by the godly are far more painful to bear, and last much longer, than those caused by wicked men. Besides, we can say with the psalmist, "It was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it." It is natural that the serpent’s seed should nibble at our heel, and seek to do us injury; but when the bite comes from a brother, - from a child of God, then it is peculiarly painful. Well might the apostle write, "If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." I have lived long enough to see churches absolutely destroyed, not by any external attacks, but by internal contention.