The Homiletic Review, Vol. 84: From July to December, 1922 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Homiletic Review, Vol. 84: From July to December, 1922

This meaning, of course, is inad missible as applied to inanimate be ings, such as wine-skins, meat, grass, gold or larger objects such as the world, the heavens. In these cases we are shut up to a secondary meaning of destroy, easily deducible, how ever, from the first. If a wine-skin has no life to be taken, when we speak of it being destroyed or perishing we mean that its use and purpose as a wine-skin is ended; not that its sub stance is annihilated but that as a wine-skin it has ceased to be. Were we to argue from this secondary meaning of destroy exemplified in the destruction of a wine-skin and to assert that such should and must be its correct interpretation when used of living beings, we should only be demonstrating our inability to grasp or our unwillingness to submit to one of the reasonable principles of inter pretation of language.

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