There is a hypocrisy of dissembling quite as real as the more vulgar hypocrisy of pretending. It is an untruthful thing to try to pass for that which you are not, even if that for which you try to pass is worse than your real self. The effect is falsehood, whatever the excuse. 'Learn the importance to the cause of truth and good in the world, of being straightforward Christians. In this world-church and church-world of ours, we are bound to throw away reserve as to our convictions. Not by preaching, not by scolding, not by threatening, but by the quiet maintenance, in word and good example, of the oμoλoyía which has the promise of two worlds, so, without ambiguity as without ostentation, let us walk in the light of the Lord1. 1 From a Temple Sermon. ἀνορθοῦν xii. 12. ἀντικαθιστάναι xii. 4. ἀντιλογία vi. 16. vii. 7. xii. 3. ἀνυπότακτος ii. 8. ἄνω xii. 15. ἀνώτερον χ. 8. ἀνωφελής vii. 18. ἄξιος xi. 38. ἀξιοῦν iii. 3. Χ. 29. xii. 26, 27. ἀπαράβατος vii. 24. &c. X. 2. ἀπάτη iii. 13. ἀπάτωρ vii. 3. ἀνάγειν xiii. 20. ἀναγκαῖος viii. 3. ἀναδέχεσθαι xi. 17. i. ἀνάγκη vii. 12, 27. ix. 16, 23. απαύγασμα 1. 3. απείθεια iv. 6, 11. ἀναθεωρεῖν xiii. 7. ἀναιρεῖν x. 9. ἀνακαινίζειν vi. 6. ἀπειθεῖν iii. 18. xi. 31. ἄπειρος V. 13. ἀπεκδέχεσθαι ix. 28. ἀπό iv. 3. v. 7. vii. 13. Χ. 22. xiii. 24. &c. ἀποβάλλειν Χ. 35. ἀρχή ii. 3. iii. 14. V. 12. vi, 1. βουλή vi. 17. &c. ἀρχηγός ii. 1o. xii. 2. βραχύς ii. 7, 9. xiii. 22. ἀρχιερεύς ii. 17. iii. I. iv. 14, βρώσις xii. 16. 15. V. I. &c. ἀσάλευτος xii. 28. ασθένεια iv. 15. v. 2. vii. 28. δόξα i. 3. ii. 1o. xiii. 21. &c. δέρμα xi. 37. δέσμιος Χ. 34. xiii. 3. δεσμός xi. 36. δοξάζειν ν. 5. δουλεία ii. 15. δεύτερος viii. 7. ix. 3, &c. x. 9. δύναμις i. 3. ii. 4. vi. 5. vii. δέχεσθαι xi. 31. δηλοῦν ix. 8. xii. 27. 16. xi. II, 34. δυναμοῦν xi. 34. δύνασθαι ii. 18. iii. 19. iv. 15. V. 2. &c. δυνατός xi. 19. δύο vi. 18. δυσερμήνευτος V. II. διαθήκη vii. 22. viii. 6, &c. ix. δωρεά vi. 4. 4, &c. διακονεῖν vi. 10. διακονία i. 14. διάκρισις V. 14. διάνοια viii. 1o. Χ. 16. διατιθέναι viii. 1o. ix. 16, 17. διάφορος i. 4. viii. 6. ix. 1o. διέρχεσθαι iv. 14. δίκαιος x. 38. xi. 4. xii. 23. διό iii. 7. vi. I. &c. διώκειν xii. 14. II. δοκιμασία iii. 9. xii. 10, δῶρον v. I. viii. 3, 4. ix. 9. |