The Church Built and Enlarged by Humble But Heroic Fidelity to Truth
E. Bersier, D. D Matthew 14:1-11 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,… It is from similar devotedness that the Church has been able to arise and enlarge. When you see glittering in the air some massive cathedral, which remains standing as a testimony to the faith of past generations, think, then, of the blocks buried in the depths of the ground. None look to see them, but without those layers the edifice would fall at the first gust of a storm. Well, if to-day there is in the world a Christian Church, if there is a refuge accessible to all the sorrows of earth, an asylum where the soul escapes for ever from the oppressions of this world, a spiritual home where faith, hope, and love abide for ever; if we ourselves have been able to find there a place; it is certain that at its base there are acts of devotion without number, obscure deaths, unknown sufferings, silent sacrifices, which none can count. (E. Bersier, D. D) Parallel Verses KJV: At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, WEB: At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,