EGW WritingsPsalms 120

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 4 (1883 - 1886)

Ms 55, 1886

4LtMs, Ms 55, 1886, par. 12

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny. Nothing is uttered in a smoother tongue. Statements may be made that it is with grief and sorrow they say these things; but while the words are as smooth as oil, the poison of asps is under the tongue. Nothing is listened to and relished with more readiness than slander. Nothing is dispersed more widely. Should you attempt to meet it in one place, and root it out, it will appear with added intensity in another. The tongue of slander is never tired. It keeps itself in constant employment. Sometimes it drips honey, sometimes gall. It assails or insinuates according to circumstances. It hides a curse under a smooth word and administers poison. “What shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?” (Psalm 120:3) the prophet exclaims. The treatment is hot coals of juniper.

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 4 (1883 - 1886)

Ms 26, 1886

4LtMs, Ms 26, 1886, par. 14

In the Scriptures the question is asked, “What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?” What treatment shall be given the unruly member? The answer is, “Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.” Psalm 120:3, 4.

Manuscript Releases, vol. 10 [Nos. 771-850]

MR No. 817—What Being Saved Means

10MR 288.1

God is seeking to exalt us to His high, pure, heavenly standard. For this purpose His Spirit is constantly striving with us. The corruptions of the world and all unholy influences will be working through the masterly energies of Satan to drag men down to their level, blinding their sensibilities, degrading their desires, enfeebling the conscience, and in every way making their religious faculties weak and inefficient. Our natural tendencies, unless corrected by the Holy Spirit of God, have in them the seeds of moral death. The flesh with all its prompting “lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh” (Galatians 5:17). If the higher, holier attributes are not cultivated, if we allow ourselves to deceive, to prevaricate, there is a false tongue that needs to be treated with the hot “coals of juniper” (Psalm 120:4)....

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888)

Ms 12, 1888

5LtMs, Ms 12, 1888, par. 7

God is seeking to exalt us to His high, pure, heavenly standard. For this purpose His Spirit is constantly striving with us. The corruptions of the world and all unholy influences will be working through the masterly energies of Satan to drag men down to their level, blinding their sensibilities, degrading their desires, enfeebling the conscience, and in every way making their religious faculties weak and inefficient. Our natural tendencies, unless corrected by the Holy Spirit of God, have in them the seeds of moral death. The flesh with all its promptings lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. If the higher, holier attributes are not cultivated, if we allow ourselves to deceive, to prevaricate, there is a false tongue that needs to be treated with the hot “coals of juniper.” [Psalm 120:4.]