Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY ENOCH PENN
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"l will give him a white stone."
seven letters to the seven churches in
is ~Z- Asia that we find the account of in the
it ti' Revelation, are seven messages to the neo-
'§* ti' phyte who is advancing upward thru the
%'¥";lw¥*x seven great steps in the regeneration. To
each overcoming, or to the one attaining each step, is
announced in mystic language the result, or reward, or
perhaps more correctly stated, the condition, the powers
and privileges attained by the overcomer.
Regarding the meaning of the promise, "I will give
him a white stone," there has been much speculation. It
has been suggested that it referred to the custom practised
at one time by certain people that as a pledge of
their friendship, when two friends parted, probably
never to meet again, a pebble was broken in two parts,
and each took a part; and the presentation of one part of
this stone to the one having the other part would bring
help even from the descendants of the original holders.
While all that is implied in this custom may be included
in the statement, "I will give him a white stone," yet
seeing that in the one case it was but a custom among
certain men, and was subject to all the limitations of
human nature, on the other hand, this statement is the
expression in symbolic language of a law obtaining in
the spirit-world among the "souls of just men made perfeet."