The peoples of Israel in the centuries recorded in Judges were constantly at war with their neighbours. Enemies everywhere. In many chapters, it seems that the silver thread of the Christ Messiah is missing.
Oh, to hear Mary Baker Eddy’s
commentary on the chapter Judges! Didn’t she say that everything in the
Bible can be interpreted spiritually?
How grateful we can be for
Mary Baker Eddy’s definition of enemies given in Miscellaneous Writings
1883-1896 in the article Love Your Enemies: “Simply count your enemy
to be that which defiles, defaces, and dethrones the Christ-image that you
should reflect” (8:17-19).
It seems like a good time to
re-read this remarkable article. I will.
On looking up Love Your
Enemies in the Concordance to Prose Works Other than Science and Health,
I found the listing of ‘enemy’ very revealing.
Here is the Concordance
listing under enemy:
Mis. 8-9 Who is thine e
8-11 Can you see an e
8-12 except you first
formulate this e
8-17 count your enemy to be
that which
8-20 Whatever purifies,. . .
is not an e
9-32 all that an enemy or
enmity can
10-30 and this one e is yourself
10-32 Soon or late, your e will wake
42-14 or destroyed this last
enemy
38-31 The e is trying to make capital
76-32 overcame the last e, death.
170-1 the last e to be overthrown;
223-27 * “If I wished to
punish my e
Un. 540-16 its most potent
and deadly e
Pul. 2-18 fiercely besieged
by the e
2-25 e we confront would
overthrown
7-13 away from the e of
sinning sense
My 185-21 destroys the last e, death
283-15 Sin is its own e
300-15 overcome “the last e” – I Cor. 15-26
358-10 pray that the e of good cannot
So we are to watch our thinking
to put to silence any and every thought which would “dethrone the Christ-image
that you should reflect.”
Lessons for the world!
Joyce Voysey
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