1 Samuel 6:9 (WEB)
Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”
Fathers and councils · 2
“…if,” it is said, “they break the yoke in pieces for want of practice, or turn where their calves are lowing, ‘it is a chance that hath happened;’but if they go on right, and err not from the way, and neither the lowing of their young, nor their ignorance of the way, have any effect on them, it is quite…” — editor's note: 1 Sam. vi. 9.
Read the whole comment“Thus, for example, the priests and prophets of those five lordships, when having yoked the kine to the ark, they let them go without their calves,gave the name of “evil” to those heaven-sent plagues, and the dismay and anguish which thereby sprang up within them.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. vi. 9.
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