| 1 | God’s own Word must not be taken |
| | | Just as knowledge but as life, |
| | Not alone God’s thought conveying, |
| | | But Himself to us as life; |
| | Not alone God’s mind revealing, |
| | | But His Christ as life within, |
| | Not alone the teaching giving, |
| | | But experience of Him. |
| 2 | It is only knowledge to us |
| | | If we in the letter read, |
| | But when reading in the spirit |
| | | It is truly life indeed. |
| | All the knowledge in the letter |
| | | Only brings us into death, |
| | But the Word in spirit taken |
| | | Gives to us the quickening breath. |
| 3 | If we miss the Lord in Scripture, |
| | | It is just as knowledge vain; |
| | But when Christ we touch within it, |
| | | Then His life we may obtain. |
| | When we read, the Lord not touching, |
| | | ’Tis but mental stimulus; |
| | But when Christ we touch by reading, |
| | | It becometh life in us. |
| 4 | All the knowledge of the Scriptures |
| | | Into life must be transformed, |
| | All the mental understanding |
| | | In the spirit must be formed; |
| | All the Scriptural understanding |
| | | Must become the life received, |
| | All the knowledge of the letters |
| | | In the spirit be conceived. |
| 5 | Just to touch the Word for knowledge |
| | | Is to take the very way |
| | By which Eve was lured by Satan |
| | | And by knowledge led astray; |
| | But as life to take the Scripture |
| | | Is the tree of life to eat; |
| | Thus the Word we must be taking |
| | | In the spirit as our meat. |
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