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The exhortation is that
everything that is evil, whether it have a good form or a bad form,
is to be resisted and opposed.... To abstain from every
appearance of evil is another thought—a different one from
what the Apostle’s words in the original would warrant;
nevertheless, they represent a sound principle. We surely should
abstain not only from evil things, whatever their form or garb, but
also we should abstain so far as possible from doing things that we
know to be good, which our friends or neighbors might misunderstand
and consider to be evil things. The spirit of a sound mind dictates
that not only evil in its every form but also everything that has an
evil appearance, even, should be avoided, that our influence for the
Lord and the Truth may be the greater. |