Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? When, a half-century ago, the famous Kaspar Hauser appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, having been released from a dungeon in which he had been confined from infancy, having never seen the face or heard the voice of man, nor gone without the walls of his prison, nor seen the full light of day, a distinguished lawyer in Germany wrote a legal history of the case, which he entitled, "A Crime against the Life of the Soul." It was well named But it is no worse than the treatment some men bestow upon their own souls As the poor German youth was at length thrust out into the world for which he was unfitted, with untrained senses in a world of sense, without speech in a world of language, with a dormant mind in a world of thought, so many go out of this world with no preparation in that part of their nature that will most be called into use. (Theodore T. Munger.) Parallel Verses KJV: For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?WEB: For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self? |
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