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(_Preached before the Prince of Wales_, _at Sandringham_, _January_ 20_th_, 1867.) EPHESIANS VI. 11. Put on the whole armour of God.
ST. PAUL again and again compares himself and the Christians to whom he writes to soldiers, and their lives to warfare. And it was natural that he should do so. Everywhere he went, in those days, he would find Roman soldiers, ruling over men of different races from themselves, and ruling them, on the whole, well. Greeks, Syrians, Jews, Egyptians,-all alike in his days obeyed the Roman soldiers, who had conquered the then known world.