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If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he can not imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
C. S. LEWIS~
Weight of Glory
Weight of Glory
Paraklesis
Strong's 3874~
paraklesis
{par-ak'-lay-sis}
from 3870;
TDNT-
5:773,778;
n f AV-
consolation 14,
exhortation 8,
comfort 6,
entreaty 1
1) a calling near,
summons,
(esp. for help)
2) importation,
supplication,
entreaty
3) exhortation,
admonition,
encouragement
4) consolation,
comfort,
solace;
that which
affords comfort
or refreshment
4a) thus of the
Messianic salvation
(so the Rabbis
call the Messiah
the consolation
of Israel)
5) persuasive discourse,
stirring address
5a) instructive,
admonitory,
conciliatory,
powerful hortatory
discourse
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