22. What did Augustine, the father of this theocratical or church-and-state theory, teach concerning
it?
Answer
"Who doubts but what it is better to be led to God by instruction than by fear of punishment or affliction?
But because the former, who will be guided only by instruction, are better, the others are still not to be
neglected. . . . Many, like bad servants, must often be reclaimed to their Master by the rod of temporal
suffering, ere they can attain to this highest stage of religious development. "-Id., pages 214, 215.
What prophecy was fulfilled in the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem?
What are the wages of sin?
What words of Peter seem to indicate another outpouring of the Spirit?
What only does Christ recognize as proper ground for dissolving the marriage relationship?
How many will yield to the demand to worship the beast?
For what did Christ reprove the Pharisees?
What Christian grace are we exhorted to exercise in our expectant longing for this event?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle