Alan...
I was looking for some other verses that I might present to
you to show you that "ALL" plainly cannot always be
asserted to mean absolutely all or all inclusively.(same thing)
Here's just one...
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation
hath appeared to all men,
Certainly not absolutely all men had been presented the Gospel but...
I found this portion of a quote from Spurgeon that says
the same much better than I can:
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..." the whole world has gone after him" Did all the world
go after Christ? "then went all Judea, and were baptized
of him in Jordan." Was all Judea, or all Jerusalem,
baptized in Jordan? "Ye are of God, little children", and
the whole world lieth in the wicked one". Does the whole
world there mean everybody? The words "world" and "all" are
used in some seven or eight senses in Scripture, and it is
very rarely the "all" means all persons, taken
individually. The words are generally used to signify that
Christ has redeemed some of all sorts —some Jews, some
Gentiles, some rich, some poor, and has not restricted His
redemption to either Jew or Gentile ...
(C.H. Spurgeon from a sermon on Particular Redemption) |
