23. Calling attention to the following illustration from husbandry ( Psalms 49:1 ; Psalms 49:2 ). As the husbandman does his different kinds of work, each in its right time and due proportion, so God adapts His measures to the varying exigencies of the several cases: now mercy, now judgments; now punishing sooner, now later (an answer to the scoff that His judgments, being put off so long, would never come at all, Psalms 49:2- : ); His object being not to destroy His people any more than the farmer's object in threshing is to destroy his crop; this vindicates God's "strange work" ( Psalms 49:2- : ) in punishing His people. Compare the same image, Jeremiah 24:6 ; Hosea 2:23 ; Matthew 3:12 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-24" class="com-number"
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