God’s design that the “new woman” in Christ Jesus, shall lead man out of the wilderness of the inefficiency of egotism into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

413. There stands a mysterious prophecy, relating to woman which no scholar who accepts the rabbinical view as to the inferior rank of woman in the divine economy is capable of understanding or interpreting. The guesses at its meaning would fill a considerable niche in a museum of literary curiosities. We [...]

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Husband hooked on vices? Wife REPENT from your vicious self-effacement. Rise up and be help MEET!

411. In all the Bible no sin is held up to human contempt more than Esau’s. Now we readily imagine that Esau, after he had sold out his birthright, might attempt to bolster up his self-respect by putting a gloss of virtue over his sin. “See how I loved Jacob! [...]

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An unbalanced virtue quickly becomes a source of degradation

406. …. We are not to avenge ourselves, as God’s children, when oppressed or defrauded; Christ did not. The wife must be Christ-like when wronged by her husband. God has commanded this non-resistance, and women must practice it, even if some men do but preach it to women for [...]

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entire independence of “other control”

405.     We do not say, therefore, that women are not to be humble and meek; they must be, to please God. We have shown, however, that meekness is not weakness, nor humility servility. Both meekness and humility supersede man’s government with God’s. And woman must do this to enter into the kingdom of God. It [...]

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MEEKNESS AND HUMILITY FOR WOMEN

LESSON 53.
MEEKNESS AND HUMILITY FOR WOMEN.
405.     We do not say, therefore, that women are not to be humble and meek; they must be, to please God. We have shown, however, that meekness is not weakness, nor humility servility. Both meekness and humility supersede man’s government with God’s. And woman must do this to enter into [...]

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