ATJ
GOD’S purpose in making known to us His will is an “eternal purpose.” Ephesians 3:11. And the Scripture is the expression of God’s thoughts on that purpose, carrying out and setting forth and making known that purpose. How deep them are His thoughts?—Just as deep as is His purpose. How far-reaching is that purpose?—Of eternal depth. In how many expressions in the Scriptures is the thought of eternal depth? In how many passages?—Every one. Has it required all the Scriptures that are written, for the Lord to express to us what He wants to tell us of His eternal purpose?—It has. Then how deep is the thought in each passage of Scripture and the words that are used to tell it?—Eternal. PTUK August 15, 1895, page 517.1
Then just as soon as any man catches one of these thoughts and thinks, “I know it now, and have got it in that passage; I have the truth; I have all there is of that thought,” he has shut up his own mind from the wisdom of the knowledge of God. He has put himself and his own mind in the place of God and His thoughts. The man that does that cannot learn any more. Do you not see that at that instant he shuts himself out for ever from learning? And the man who does that, of course can learn nothing beyond himself, and of course will never have the knowledge of God. PTUK August 15, 1895, page 517.2
The expressions of thought conveyed in the statement of the Scriptures are as eternal depths. Then what limit can we set to ourselves in the study of these?—No limit at all. Then does not that present the splendid picture, and the grand prospect that the eternal, the whole, mind of God is wide open before us for us to study upon? PTUK August 15, 1895, page 517.3
And until all the depths and eternities are past we shall never get to the place where we shall have the right to think we know that thing and are done learning from its eternal depths. I am glad to know that we have such a subject to study upon, and such a length of time (eternity) in which to study it. PTUK August 15, 1895, page 517.4
A. T. JONES.