3 Through wisdom [chochmah] is an house [bais] builded; and by understanding [tevunah] it is established:

The "word of Christ" and "the truth" are synonymous terms. The truth is all about Christ; and the truth covers the whole extent of the holy oracles. Christ is the great subject-matter of the law and the prophets, as well as of the apostolic writings. The law and the prophets are unintelligible apart from him. He is the key and the foundation.

Acquaintance with the Scriptures in their breadth and fulness—namely, the kind of acquaintance to be got from daily and untiring intimacy with them—will, therefore, result in the rich indwelling of the word of Christ, and in all the effects which that indwelling is calculated to produce on every well-balanced mind. Christ "dwelling in the heart by faith" will engrave the picture of Christ on a man's outer life.

In this matter there are, of course, degrees of attainment. John speaks of children, young men and fathers in Christ. The matter is one admitting, in the same discipleship, of great variety of mental relation to it—the utmost profundity of understanding on the one hand, and the simple exercise of childlike and uncomprehending faith on the other.

Yet these varying conditions in believers have a common basis—faith and obedience. They all believe the testimony of God, and are all distinguished by "the doing of His commandments." This is the family likeness. This is the one feature we ought to aim at cultivating. It is one that will grow under a right process of treatment.

The Christadelphian, Nov 1875