# “Sound and healthy otherworldliness” by E.J. Bicknell

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- Published: 2007-09-06T22:56:36-05:00
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“Eschatology does not weaken but strengthen the call to present sanctification. 
Life is to be lived here and now by those who will have to give an account of it.
But the temptation to shirk the ordinary tasks of the present age is sharply rebuked.
Christians are to be better citizens, better workmen, better servants because they
have already tasted the powers of the age to come, and look for its consummation…

To be wholly absorbed in this world is to miss its true meaning. A right otherworldliness
is the condition of the truest success and the wisest use of this world. Thus a 
Christian Apocalyptic promotes that sound and healthy otherworldliness which is 
the truest wisdom.”

–E.J. Bicknell, _The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians_, _Westminster
Commentaries_ (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932), p. 51.

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