Well, Quartus' little message is written down here, and the world knows it. All our words and works are getting put down too, in another Book up there, and it is going to be read out one day. It does seem wonderful that you and I should live as we do, knowing that all the while that God is recording it all. If we are not ashamed to do things, and let Him note them on His tablets that they may be for the time to come, for ever and ever, it is strange that we should be more careful to attitudinise and pose ourselves before one another than before Him. Let us then keep ever in mind 'those pure eyes and perfect witness of the all-judging' God. The eternal record of this little message is only a symbol of the eternal life and eternal record of all our transient and trivial thoughts and deeds before Him. Let us live so that each act, if recorded, would shine with some modest ray of true light like brother Quartus' greeting, and let us seek that, like him,--all else about us being forgotten, position, talents, wealth, buried in the dust,--we may be remembered, if we are remembered at all, by such a biography as is condensed into these three words. Who would not wish to be embalmed, so to speak, in such a record? Who would not wish to have such an epitaph as this? A sweet fate to live for ever in the world's memory by three words which tell his name, his Christianity, and his brotherly love! So far as we are remembered at all, may the like be our life's history and our epitaph! EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D.D., Litt.D. CORINTHIANS (_To II Corinthians, Chap. V_) CONTENTS CALLING ON THE NAME (1 COR. i. 2) PERISHING OR BEING SAVED (1 COR. i. 18) THE APOSTLE'S THEME (1 COR. ii. 2) GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS (1 COR. iii. 9) THE TESTING FIRE (1 COR. iii. 12, 13) TEMPLES OF GOD (1 COR. iii. 16) DEATH, THE FRIEND (1 COR. iii. 21, 22) SERVANTS AND LORDS (1 COR. iii. 21-23) THE THREE TRIBUNALS (1 COR. iv. 3, 4) THE FESTAL LIFE (1 COR. v. 8) FORMS _VERSUS_ CHARACTER (1 COR. vii. 19, GAL. v. 6, GAL. vi. 15, R.V.) SLAVES AND FREE (1 COR. vii. 22) THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 COR. vii. 24) 'LOVE BUILDETH UP' (1 COR. viii. 1-13) THE SIN OF SILENCE (1 COR. ix. 16, 17) A SERVANT OF MEN (1 COR. ix. 19-23) HOW THE VICTOR RUNS (1 COR. ix. 24) 'CONCERNING THE CROWN' (1 COR. ix. 25) THE LIMITS OF LIBERTY (1 COR. x. 23-33) 'IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME' (1 COR. xi. 24) THE UNIVERSAL GIFT (1 COR. xii. 7) WHAT LASTS (1 COR. xiii. 8, 13) THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION (1 COR. xv. 3, 4) REMAINING AND FALLING ASLEEP (1 COR. xv. 6) PAUL'S ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF (1 COR. xv. 10) THE UNITY OF APOSTOLIC TEACHING (1 COR. xv. 11) THE CERTAINTY AND JOY OF THE RESURRECTION (1 COR. xv. 20) THE DEATH OF DEATH (1 COR. xv. 20, 21; 50-58) STRONG AND LOVING (1 COR. xvi. 13, 14) ANATHEMA AND GRACE (1 COR. xvi. 21-24) GOD'S YEA; MAN'S AMEN (2 COR. i. 20, R.V.) ANOINTED AND STABLISHED (2 COR. i. 21) SEAL AND EARNEST (2 COR. i. 22)