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EXPOSITION.
To fall into the hands of an evil generation, so as to be
baited by their cruelty, or polluted by their influence, is an
evil to be dreaded beyond measure; but it is an evil foreseen and
provided for in the text. In life many a saint has lived a
hundred years before his age, as though he had darted his soul
into the brighter future, and escaped the mists of the beclouded
present; he has gone to his grave unreverenced and misunderstood,
and lo! as generations come and go, upon a sudden the hero is
unearthed, and lives in the admiration and love of the excellent
of the earth; preserved for ever from the generation which
stigmatised him as a sower of sedition, or burned him as a
heretic. It should be our daily prayer that we may rise above our
age as the mountain-tops above the clouds, and may stand out as
heaven-pointing pinnacle high above the mists of ignorance and
sin which roll around us. O Eternal Spirit, fulfil in us the
faithful saying of this verse! Our faith believes those two
assuring words, and cries, "_Thou shalt_," "_thou shalt_."
HINTS TO PREACHERS.
Verse 7.--Preservation from one's generation in life and
for ever. A very suggestive theme.