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Updated: June 27, 2025
Cry thus: all flesh is grass, and all its glory like a flower of the field; the grass withereth and the flower falleth away, but the word of God endureth for ever." These words St. Peter introduces here; for this is, as I have said, a rich epistle, and well spiced with Scripture. Thus speaks the Scripture, then: The word of God endures for ever. And all must fall by the word of God.
'The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, yes, but only its petals drop, and as they fall, the fruit which they sheltered swells and matures. The thought of the present as the harvest from the past brings out in vivid and picturesque form two solemn truths. The first is the passing away of all the external, but of it only.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. Meditate upon these things alway and the peace of God be with thee, enlightening and informing thee, and leading thee into the way of salvation, chasing afar out of thy mind every evil wish, and sealing thy soul with the sign of the Cross, that no stumbling block of the evil one come nigh thee, but that thou mayest merit, in all fulness of virtue, to obtain the kingdom that is to come, without end or successor, and be illumined with the light of the blessed life-giving Trinity, which, in the Father, and in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost, is glorified."
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord endureth for ever," quoted Mrs. Lewis. "Do you know that all those writings, valuable and good in their place as they are, when compared with the Bible seem to me just like grass and flowers?
"The grass withereth," he murmured, "the flower fadeth, and the glory of its beauty perisheth; but but the word of the Lord endureth for ever." And here he too burst into natural tears, and Eric pressed his hand, with more than a brother's fondness, to his heart. "Oh Eddy, Eddy, my heart is full," he said, "too full to speak to you.
I used to know, but trouble has played old Hookey with my memory. It's all here, you know" and he tapped the bald table-land of his head "but somehow it ain't handy as it used! In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up: in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
It is the hard hap of the reprobate to do all things too late; to be sensible of his want of grace too late; to be sorry for sin too late; to seek repentance too late; to ask for mercy, and to desire to go to glory too late. Thus you see, 1. That fruit smitten in the growth, that withereth, and that comes not to maturity, is no fruit. 2. That the fruit that is vile, and ill-tasted, is no fruit.
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Of both enemy and friend it is true, 'The grass withereth, and the flower thereof passeth away. How antique and ineffectual the pages of the past generations of either are, compared with the ever-fresh youth of the Bible, which, like the angels, is the youngest and is the oldest of books.
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