1 Thessalonians 5:26
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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1 Thessalonians 5:26. Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
This was the token of friendship in the East. To attempt to import it to the West would be not only absurd, but wicked. I may properly read them, "Greet all the brethren witch a hearty shake of the hand; keep up the outward form of fellowship, for if you don’t you will soon forget the fellowship itself." The kiss was the Oriental custom; it was to be kept up. The shake of the hand is our Western custom. Let it be kept up. And I delight to see it when Christians meet, and cordially greet each other after the custom of their land.