“Arise, depart, for this is not your rest,” says the Spirit by the prophet. And why? Why is it not to be our rest?
“It is polluted” he adds. He does not say,
“It is sorrowful; it is disappointing; it is unsatisfying, but it is polluted.”
The quickened soul is to gather from the moral, and not from the circumstances of the scene here, its reasons for cherishing within it the power of Christ’s resurrection.
The dove outside the ark did not fear the snare of the fowler, but found no rest for the sole of her foot on the unpurged ground.