| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: blames the Galatians, trying every way to hit the right note and tone of
voice.
VERSE 21. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear
the law?
Here Paul would have closed his Epistle because he did not know what else
to say. He wishes he could see the Galatians in person and straighten out
their difficulties. But he is not sure whether the Galatians have fully
understood the difference between the Gospel and the Law. To make sure,
he introduces another illustration. He knows people like illustrations and
stories. He knows that Christ Himself made ample use of parables.
Paul is an expert at allegories. They are dangerous things. Unless a person
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: confusion, his anxiety growing keener as he became cooler. But at
last, with a heartfelt joy, he gathered from the confused buzz of
words that the other lad had opened his eyes and, after a while,
he saw him sit up, leaning his head upon the shoulder of one of
his fellow-bachelors, white and faint and sick as death.
"Thank Heaven that thou didst not kill him!" said Edmund Wilkes,
who had been standing with the crowd looking on at the efforts of
Blunt's friends to revive him, and who had now come and sat down
upon the bed not far from Myles.
"Aye," said Myles, gruffly, "I do thank Heaven for that."
CHAPTER 14
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