The Social Task of Christianity; a Summons to the New Crusade

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The Social Task of Christianity; a Summons to the New Crusade
Samuel Zane Batten
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Ser- mons and homilies innumerable have been preached from the text : " What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul ? What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? " But as a matter of fact the word here translated soul is the same word that in a former verse is translated life : " He that findeth his life shall lose it ; and whosoever loseth his life for My sake shall find it. " * The nature of the say- ing necessitates this translation of the word. By what r...ight then do we change the translation in the verse below and represent Christ as confusing men by talking about the soul ? Save your life, this was His charge to men. Have a care for your life, is His warning in the Sermon on the Mount. Let your whole life be given to the kingdom of God and its service ; do not waste 'Matt, xvi. 25.
104 THE SOCIAL TASK OF CHRISTIANITY yourself on the purely incidental and accidental things. But the contrast here is not between body and soul, as some suppose, but between life saved for the kingdom and devoted to its chief end and life spent for self and wasted on trifles.


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