10. The Lord bringeth thecounsel of the heathen to nought. While his own will is
done, he takes care to anticipate the willfullness of his enemies. Before they
come to action he vanquishes them in the council-chamber; and when, well armed
with craft, they march to the assault, he makes their promising plots to end in
nothing. Not only the folly of the heathen but their wisdom also will yield to
the power of the cross of Jesus: what a comfort is this to those who have to
labor where sophistry, and philosophy, falsely so called, are set in opposition
to the truth as it is in Jesus. He maketh the devices of the people of noneeffect. Their persecutions, slanders, falsehoods, are like puff-balls flung
against a granite wall—they produce no result at all; for the Lord overrules
the evil, and brings good out of it.
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