With all long-suffering. I timothy iv. 2.
, D.D., in The Watchword, writes, on this text:
This is the crucial test of effectiveness in rebuke, that we give it with all long-suffering. "Simon, put up thy sword again into its place," said the Lord to Peter. He would not have said it, had it been the Sword of Spirit that Simon was wielding; for the Sword of Spirit lays open the heart, while the sword of the flesh only cuts off the ears.
