Light and Truth: The Old Testament: Chapter 53 - The Secret of Deliverance from Evil
"By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil." -- Proverbs 16:6
THERE is "evil" in the world. The world is now the opposite of what God made it, "good," "very good." It lieth in wickedness. There is evil within and without; evil moral and material. "Every creature of God" was made good, but each one has become evil. There is evil in the sense of disorder, pain, disease, sorrow, death. There is evil in the sense of sin. It is this last that our text points to; for evil in the sense of disease, or death, or sorrow, is not to be cured just now, by the remedy our text suggests, or by any remedy whatever. For such cures as these we wait till the resurrection of the just.
