The impulse should be to Good : if once we are sure of this , we must obey it without hesitation, whatever people may say. Those entitled to curse : angels and mankind : the cursed ones will deprive themselves of the protection of God and of the angels, who are the Powers of God, and of the good wishes of mankind, because by contumaciously rejecting Faith, they not only sin against God but are false to their own manhood, which God created in the " best of moulds. " The terrible curses denounced in the Old Testament are set out in Deut. xxviii. 15.68. There is one difference. Here it is for the deliberate rejection of Faith, a thelogical term for the denying of our higher nature. There it is for a breach of the least part of the ceremonial Law. Therein-in the curse. A curse is not a matter of words : it is a terrible spiritual state, opposite to the state of Grace. Can we curse ? Not of course in the same sense in which we speak of the curse of God. A mere verbal curse is of no effect.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:12:47 +0000
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