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Gen_17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Ver. 22. And he left off talking with him.] As man with his friend. Such honour have all his saints. Oh, speak it when I am gone, and preach it at my funeral, God dealeth familiarly with man, said that heavenly spark, now ready to be extinct {a} St Paul calls prayer åíôåõîéí , an entreparlance with God, {1Ti_2:1} and åðåñùôçìá , the confident interrogatory or rejoinder of a good conscience toward God. {1Pe_3:21} The Persian monarchs held it a piece of their silly glory to keep themselves from their greatest subjects. {Est_4:11} And Jupiter’s image at Crete was made without ears. Plutarch gives the reason, Non enim convenit audiri ab eo quenquam, qui omnium rerum sit Dominus atqui princeps . A pretty plea for Baal! He is too great to talk with men. Our God thinks not himself so. He solicits suitors, and loves to be, interchangcably, solicited by them.
{a} Mr. John Holland, B.D. See my True Treas., p. 373.