Bray - To pound wheat in a mortar with a pestle, in order to free the wheat from its husks and impurities, is to go through a far more elabo…

Though you should bray (i.e., pound) a fool (a self-willed, headstrong person) in a mortar among wh…

No troubles, no afflictions, can of themselves make a fool into a wise man. The sinner remains a sinner, after all providential chastisements, unle…

Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat
with a pestle
As the manna was,…

Some are so bad that even severe methods do not fulfill the purpose; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's…