poison-peril

Updated: July 14, 2025

And if you do not know and feel that that is you, then you have not learned the first letters of the alphabet which are necessary to spell 'salvation. You, I, every man, we are all sick unto death, because the poison of self-will and sin is running hot through all our veins, and we are all in deadly peril because of that poison-peril of death, peril arising from the weight of guilt that presses upon us, peril from our inevitable collision with the Divine law and government which make for righteousness.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John