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Gen_38:25 When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
Ver. 25. By the man, whose these are, &c.] So his secret sin comes to light. All will out at length, though never so studiously concealed. {Mat_10:26} "That which hath wings shall tell the matter." {Ecc_10:20} It was a quill, a piece of a wing, that discovered the Gun Powder Plot. {a}
Discern, I pray thee, whose are these.] So, when we come to God, though he seem never so angry and ill set against us, can we but present unto him ourselves his own; our prayer, Mediator, arguments, all his; and then say, as she here to Judah, "Whose are these?" he cannot deny himself.
{a} Ut taceant homines iumenta loquentur. - Juven.