Proud Ephraim and the Treacherous Cities

In this article we engage in a character study. And this study will result in our affirming anew God's appraisal of the natural man and of the flesh of the believers -- the appraisal to the effect that this man and this flesh is carnal and in: its carnality is thoroughly proud, vain, selfish, self-seeking, a deceiver and a false pretender to virtue and piety. The subjects of our study are the Ephraimites and the Succothites, the reaction of the former to the mighty achievements of Gideon's...