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No.65.
The Seven-fold Doctrinal Section seen as a whole.
pp. 121 - 123
The reader who has followed this series of studies so far will need no explanation of
the many allusions to a great building. We have followed our guide through the seven
chambers of doctrinal truth, and now stand at the foot of the central tower which
represents the prayer of Eph. 3: 14-21 and occupies a central position between the
seven sections of doctrine and the seven sections of practice. Before ascending this
tower, our guide pauses to draw our attention to a stained glass window, and we observe
that it is in reality a symbolical representation of the sevenfold correspondence which is
observable upon the study of the doctrinal section as a whole. The reader will see that we
have attempted to display this correspondence below, and believe that if each item is
compared, fuller light will be forthcoming. This detailed examination we have ourselves
made, but we can here only give the actual references, trusting that the reader may be
sufficiently interested to take them and the several correspondencies, and pursue the
study of their bearing upon one another more fully than we hope to do here.
We have already seen that there is a close correspondence between the seven sections
of doctrine which occupy Eph. 1: 3 - 3: 13 and the seven sections of practice that
occupy chapters 4:-6:, but this is not the only set of correspondencies clearly indicated
in this great epistles. If we take the seven doctrinal sections and consider them as a
whole, and unrelated to the practical portion, we shall still find that this law of
correspondence holds good. In the drawing of the window of the chart which follows, we
have not attempted any detail; this we now supply.
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(BE-XLI.122).