[Manna - August 19]
Abstain from every form of evil. (Rev. Ver.) 1 Thessalonians 5:22
THE exhortation is that everything that is evil,
whether it have a good form or a bad form, is to be
resisted and opposed....To abstain from every appearance of evil is another thought—a different one
from what the apostle's words in the original would
warrant; nevertheless, they represent a sound principle.
We surely should abstain not only from evil
things, whatever their form or garb, but we should
abstain so far as possible from doing things that we
know to be good, which our friends or neighbors
might misunderstand and consider to be evil things.
The spirit of a sound mind dictates that not only
evil in its every form, but everything that has an
evil appearance even, should be avoided—that our
influence for the Lord and the Truth may be the
greater. Z.'03-26 R3137:5