Virtues Necessary Far Religious Warkers
2 Chronicles 18:6-7
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?…


Close sympathy with his kind, personal lowliness, self-suppression pushed even to pathetic extremes, unshakable loyalty to the teaching of the Spirit of God, and calm indifference to fashionable moods of flattery or disapproval — these are virtues necessary to every religious worker. If he deferentially consults the noble of this world what message he may utter; if he asks the man of affairs, whose difficult lifo reminds him always, not only of Jacob's wrestling, but also of Jacob's subtlety, and who is fiercely tempted to give his vote for a gospel of compromise; if he asks the poor and becomes spokesman, not of their wrongs, but of a maddened despair which does not represent their truer self, he passes from the side of Micaiah to that of the four hundred.

(T. Rhys Evans)



Parallel Verses
KJV: But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?

WEB: But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?"




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