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Gen_22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Ver. 8. God will provide himself a lamb.] A pious and precious proverb; {a} much to be mused on, and made use of, when we are in an exigent, and see not whither to turn us. Then say, Deus viderit . God will with the temptation also give an issue. {1Co_10:13} Necesse est adesse divinum, ubi humanum cessat auxilium , saith Philo. Sciat etiam Celsitudo vestra , saith Luther in a letter to the Prince Elector of Saxony; {b} I would your Highness should well know that businesses are far otherwise carried and concluded in heaven than at the Diet at Noringberg, &c. And to Philip Melancthon he writes thus: Si nos ruemus, ruet Christus una, ille regnator mundi: et esto ruat, &c. Sed scribo haec frustra, quia tu secundum philosophiam vestram, has res ratione rogere, hoc est, ut ait ille, cum ratione insanire pergis, et occidis teipsum; nec vides prorsus extra manum tuam et consilium positam esse causam, etiam extra curam tuam velle agi. {c}
{a} Qui finxit alas papilioni, is curabit omnia .
{b} Scultet. Ann.
{c} Idem.