Gossip

In answer to brother V. Graeser’s request for “Explanation, Please!” I have only the following brief remarks to make: I have used the word gossip throughout the 27 years of my ministry in the same sense that the late Rev. H. Hoeksema condemns talebearers and tattlers, see I Tim. 5:13, in his treatment of the ninth commandment in his memorable work on the Heidelberg Catechism, and in the sense that Ursinus, the author of the Heidelberg Catechism uses the word gossiper, years before I was born,...