good a start even to be overtaken and crushed: and it is too good a weapon for our

opponents, to expect them to abandon very readily'.  `The Day will declare it'."

(Vol. XVI, July, 1910, page 84).

"A DISCLAIMER.--Re the advertisement of `Unsearchable Riches' in our last issue,

it was entirely due to a mistake between ourselves and our advertising agent."

"Some of our friends have felt aggrieved; but we hope that both they and others will

have fuller confidence in us for the future" (Vol. XVIII, Nov., 1912, page 133).

"QUESTION No.408. `RECONCILIATION.'--A.S. (Scotland). Does Christ's work

include the angels, see Col. 1: 20: to reconcile all things to Himself, things on earth and

things in heaven?"

"To understand this we must understand the words used.  There are two words

rendered reconcile."

"(1) Katallasso. It occurs only six times (Rom. 5: 10; I Cor. 7: 11; II Cor. 5: 18,

19, 20); and means conciliation by changing the relation of one person or thing towards

another; whereas diallassomai means that the change is mutual with each of the two

parties. This word occurs only once in the New Testament, viz., Matt. 5: 24."

"(2) The other word is apokatallasso, and denotes that this change of relationship

need not affect both (of two) parties, but that the change on the part of the one is

complete and absolute. This word occurs only in Eph. 2: 16; Col. 1: 20, 21."

"If the word `destruction' has any meaning (see Psa. 145: 20), how can what is

destroyed be conciliated or reconciled? God can be said to have changed His relationship

to the world when He has made an end of all evil. This conciliation or change is in

Himself, as in Col. 1: 21. The cross changes His attitude toward all things. He can now

be `just' in His judgments, and yet `the justifier' of all who believe Him."

" `The heavens are not clean in His sight'; but, when Satan is cast out, and the earth

purged of all evil, His attitude to `the things on earth and things in heaven' will be

changed, but as to the things themselves that have been destroyed and burned up, how

can they be `reconciled' in any sense of the word?"

"The conciliation is `unto Himself', and His relation to saved sinners is changed

through the death of His Son, so that He can present them holy and unblameable, and

unimpeachable in His sight. It is He Who is conciliated by the atonement of Christ, and

not ourselves. We are changed from enemies to friends by His grace and power."

"We are convinced that the interpretation of the word `reconciliation', which connects

it with two parties, is a misunderstanding; just as the word `accept' is almost universally

misunderstood and misused. It is God who accepts Christ as the sinners' substitute, as

He accepted Abel's lamb (Gen. 4: 4; Heb. 11: 4)."

"He accepted it by consuming it with `fire from heaven' (Psa. 20: 3) as He accepted

all sacrifices (see Lev. 9: 24; 6: 12, 13; I Kings 8: 64; 18: 38; II Chron. 7: 1,

etc.). And yet, to-day, sinners are everywhere exhorted to `accept Christ' for themselves,

instead of being exhorted to believe God that He has accepted Christ as His provided

substitute for everyone who believes what He has revealed as to their guilt, and as to their

need of a Saviour."

"So with what is spoken of as `reconciliation'. There is no such thing as regards the

sinner. There is conciliation on God's part toward the sinner in virtue of the substitute

which He has provided and accepted, but there is an `everlasting destruction', not some

future reconciliation, for those who refuse to believe Him" (Vol. XIX, Jan., 1913, p. 11).

"QUESTION No.414. `RECONCILIATION'.--D.J. (Middlesex). What is the force

of the preposition apo in apokatallasso? Does it, as some say, describe the change in us,

from enmity to love?"

"In our answer to Question No.408 in the January Number, we gave all the references

where the words katallasso and apokatallasso occur. We add here the occurrences of the

noun katallage; Rom. 5: 11 (translated atonement); 11: 15; II Cor. 5: 18, 19.  A

consideration of all these passages will show that there is no idea in any one of them of