If you have chosen such a life, you know that you are spending money for that which is not bread, and labor for that which satisfieth not. There come to you hours when you realize your degradation. Alone in the far country you feel your misery, and in despair you cry, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Romans 7:24 . It is the statement of a universal truth which is contained in the prophet's words, “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.” Jeremiah 17:5, 6 . God “maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” ( Matthew 5:45 ); but men have the power to shut themselves away from sunshine and shower. So while the Sun of Righteousness shines, and the showers o…
"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
Ellen White directly references Romans 7:24 in this passage.
"That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
Ellen White directly references Matthew 5:45 in this passage.
"Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness."
EGW directly quotes and applies Isaiah 55:2 to the idea of wasting resources on unsatisfying pursuits, making it a clear and intentional allusion.
"Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord."
EGW directly quotes Jeremiah 17:5 and applies it to the concept of trusting in man rather than God. This is a clear and intentional allusion.