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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Seven Golden Lamps***D</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. The CANDLESTICKS.<br> It is not so much to the light<br> as to the utensil or stand <br>for holding it that his attention is turned; <br> for the light of these lamps <br>is not from themselves, <br> or from any earthly source, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But from Him who is 'the light of the world, <br>' and who said to His disciples<br> as His representatives here, <br>'You are the light of the world.'<br>'Among whom you shine <br>as lights in the world' (Philippians 1: 15) , </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says Paul, adding, 'holding forth the word of life.' <br>The individual saint is a 'light; <br> ' a Church is a 'light holder' or 'lamp stand.<br>' The saint personally, <br>and the Church or body of saints, <br> is placed 'in the midst of a crooked <br>and perverse nation, ' and, like <br>'the word of prophecy' (2 Peter 1: 19) , <br> 'shines as a light in a dark place, <br> until the day dawn and the day-star arise.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Israel, for ages, was the world's <br>only light—a light confined within<br> narrow boundaries—not diffused<br> over earth, nor set upon a hill. <br>Of this the one seven-branched<br> candlestick in the tabernacle<br> and temple was the symbol. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That lamp stand was doubly<br> shut in—first, by the outer curtain, <br> or wall of the house; and, secondly, <br> by the inner curtain, or wall of the holy place. <br>But these curtains have been<br> torn in pieces, these walls thrown down; <br> and now that lamp stands in uncurtained, <br> unhidden splendor, shining out over all the world. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take the lamp as meaning, <br> in the first place, CHRIST Himself, <br> the light of Israel, and of the world. <br>This is true. He was 'a light to enlighten<br> the Gentiles; ' 'His life was the light of men.<br>' Take it again as meaning ISRAEL, <br> who was so long earth's only light.<br> This is true; for Israel, when her <br>exclusive privileges passed away, <br>gave forth her light around. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take it as meaning the CHURCH, <br> or Churches, or saints of God. <br>This is also true—they shine out <br>as lights over all the world—not over <br>Israel's valleys and hills alone, <br>or her cities and villages, <br>but over all earth's wide expanse, <br> over all kindred's, and nations, <br>and tongues, and peoples.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christ is the world's light; <br> the church is the world's light; <br> each saint is the light of the circle<br> where he dwells and where he moves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>15. January 2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Wismer">Mary Wismer</a><div class=q>
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 It is not so much to the light
 as to the utensil or stand 
for holding it that his attention is turned; 
 for the light of these lamps 
is not from themselves, 
 or from any earthly source, 

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