...tried people, and sometimes they are tried by their nearest and dearest friends. The Psalmist says, "It was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself agaimt me; then I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and...

...resemble that of Jerusalem before its destruction, is a matter of sad and sorrowful consideration. 12. ' For it was not an enemy that reproached me,...13. ' But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide,' Heb. my disciple, and mine acquaintance. 14. ' We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the...

...and wept as he went up,' and afterwards gave speech to his lacerated heart in words such as these ; ' It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could...against me, then I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou — a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together,...

...and might have addressed his quondam friends, with some show of ieason, in the language of David, " For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could have horne it: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel...

...his address to Judas, " Betrayest thou the Son of man ?" This touched the tender heart of Christ. " For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; then...against me; then I would have hid myself from him : but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together,...

...and enervates our efforts ; while it constrains us to exclaim with the bitterness of the Psalmist, ' It was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could...against me ; then I would have hid myself from him : but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together,...

...man?" This touched the tender heart of Christ. " For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then J could have borne it: neither was it he that hated...against me; then I would have hid myself from him : but it was Mou, a man mine equal, my guide, and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together,...

...me. 1 For it têtu not an enemy //; •( reproached me ; then could I have borne it: neither ii-as it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; then I would have hid myself from him ; But it iras thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together,...

...put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. Psal. lv. 12, &c. it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it .... but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance; we took sweet counsel together,...

...put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.' Psal. Iv. 12, &c. ' it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.. ..but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance ; we took sweet counsel together,...