The first letter of each of the following responses will form the word defining the near relationship, signifying that the greater is not ashamed to be linked with the lesser. [1] The number in brackets indicates the number of words in each answer.
1. Something only half-grown, which caused some royal servants to be greatly ashamed. [1]
2. An exercise, with mathematical connotations, that a studious workman would be doing to avoid being ashamed. [2]
3. The recipients of a display of the power of God in the gospel for which no one needs ever to be ashamed. [4]
4. The duration of a certain time of searching by fifty servants who were deputized only after someone became ashamed. [2]
5. Something which makes not ashamed because of a certain shedding in the hearts of believers. [1]
6. That which Job stated his three friends had. [2]
7. That which sustained an apostle in his zeal to magnify Christ in life or death, that precluded the thought of his ever being ashamed of the One in whom he believed. [2]
8. A “no-no” for contrary people because sound speech has left them ashamed and speechless. [5]
Answers to these questions will be found in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
R. Erisman