to cure is an evidence of God’s anger, you will think Isaac a sinner because he was so wholly sightless that he was deceived into blessing one whom he did not mean to bless.24 You will charge Jacob with sin, whose vision became so dim that he could not see Ephraim and Manasseh,25 although with the inner eye and the prophetic spirit he could foresee the distant future and the Christ that was to come of his royal line.26 Were any of the kings holier than Josiah? Yet he was slain by the sword of the
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