wandered in deserts, and mountains, and woods, and caves.” Mark, they wandered in the woods, (it is Chrysostom’s note,*) ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκεὶ ὀντες ἐφευγον: the retirement and privacy of the wilderness did not yield them a quiet and safe abode. So in Acts 8:4, we read of the primitive believers that they “were scattered abroad everywhere.” Many of the children of God in these times have been driven from their dwellings; but you see we have no reason to think the case strange. VII. To the twelve tribes