2 Samuel 19:18
According to old heathen mythology, there was a fabled river called
Acheron, which the souls of the dead must cross. Its waters were muddy
and bitter, and old Charon, who ferried them over, obliged each one to
pay a sum of money for the passage. In this fable there is a remnant
of so... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Samuel 19:31
_(see also 2 Samuel 17:27; 1 Kings 2:7; Jeremiah 41:17; Ezra 2:61)_
I. We have here a man who knows that he is old, but who is not
distressed by the thought of it. There are old men who do not know
that they are old, or who seek to suppress their knowledge of it. Few
things in the wo... [ Continue Reading ]