to hinder the plans of the Divine wisdom. But it is also precisely by human sin and foolishness that the history of God’s kingdom under the guidance of the Divine wisdom and providence receives new occasions and impulses to wider and higher development according to the aims which God sets before Himself.—Lange’s Commentary. God demands in the souls He sets apart for Himself and for the guidance of others, such a dying to all things that He does not allow them to regard any other interest than His,
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