Note 13 — THE PATRIARCHS (continued 3)
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In the mystic history of the earth given to us in Lev. xxiii. the Church is brought in as the "poor" and the "stranger" gleaning in another man's field, in ver. 22. But as she entered that field so she left it. She was the poor one, and the stranger, and the gleaner in another's field, to the end. The field never becomes her property. Looked at in the light of this beautiful figure, what is Christendom under God's eye?