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Halt. Mark Ward: How long will you limp between two opinions? In his graphic used in the recent Haifley-Ward debate (and at other times and in other places) Mark Ward tells us that to say “halt”...
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Note that "halt between two opinions" is active in our usage, you can find it in many articles and books, and that is thanks largely to this beautiful verse in the King James Bible.
1 Kings 18:21
“And Elijah came unto all the people, and said,
How long halt ye between two opinions?
if the LORD be God, follow him:
but if Baal, then follow him.
And the people answered him not a word.”
The context makes the meaning supremely easy.
Wesley, Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards and others preach on it.
This usage is an ancient landmark that should not every be removed.
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The learned men knew all about wavering, it would be an inferior word in the Elijah verse.
Hebrews 10:23 (KJV)
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised
James 1:6 (KJV)
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.