2 The fear of a king [wrath of a melech] is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul [nefesh].

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: But a wise man will pacify it (16: 14)

3 It is an honour [kavod] for a man [ish] to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling [any fool can start a quarrel].

The kingdom of God will be upon a broad and liberal basis (in a scriptural sense), but the entrance gate is straight, and the pathway leading thereto is narrow. A broad church is a broad way, which will sooner or later come to grief.

Time and an evil state of things (in the light of the world) a fiery ordeal making manifest both the righteousness of the righteous, and the wickedness of the wicked, to complete which it only remains for God having judged the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, to reward every man according to his work.

If we would be found of the Lord Jesus in peace, we must needs pass the time of our sojourning here in fear, not in spiritual rioting or wordy strife, but as always abounding in the sober and sanctifying work of the Lord.

Bro Shuttleworth

The Christadelphian, Dec 1873

6 Most men [Rav adam] will proclaim every one his own goodness [chesed]: but a faithful man [an ish emunim] who can find [one]?

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. (27: 2)

I have always found that wherever the Bible is clearly understood and fervently appreciated, as such themes are to be appreciated both by the nature of things and the express injunction of scripture, that there Dr. Thomas is loved and esteemed.

This result is quite apart from the personal peculiarities of the man. What mortal is without blemish? But what covers blemish like intelligent attachment to divine things? Who could surpass Dr. Thomas in his towering reverence for the oracles of God and his uncompromising loyalty to their authority as opposed to all tradition?

Some had become haters of him through his brusque treatment of crotchets. I had, myself, by and by, an opportunity of feeling the weight and sharpness of that steely executive mind which qualified him for the part he performed in tearing aside the webs of error woven by merely human sympathy; but that I could be separated from him was impossible with the discernment I had of his mastery of divine truth and his faithfulness to Christ in all its bearings.

My days and my ways Ch 19