"The great Puritan writer Jeremiah Burroughs put it this way: 'Truth is the bond that keeps unity, but error is wild.' Because error is wild, the best thing for truth to do is stay on the path, not turning aside to the right or the left. Truth should do what truth does the best, which is to move on straight ahead. Truth fights when it has to, but it fights in the path, in order to stay on the path. Bunyan’s pilgrim was not chasing over the meadows in order to go Apollyon-hunting. He fought, but he fought because Apollyon was in the path. We have our tasks assigned to us, and it is most important that we remain faithful in those tasks, whatever liars may say." - Douglas Wilson, A Justice Primer
Truth fights on the path or it doesn't fight. It doesn't go looking for altercations elsewhere, it is not belligerent. But it is willing to battle when the fight comes to it. Christian was outfitted by those at the Palace Beautiful in order to find him a monster to slay. He was armored to fight in the event that a monster came a looking for him. We fight for the path. We fight on the path. We fight what attempts to barricade the path. But we do not leave the path. We cannot win if we go off course. We cannot be suckered into veering off in order to win a victory for the path. Our task is the path and to fight whatever may or may not be on it.
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