14. He suffered no man to do them wrong. Men
cannot wrong us unless he lets them do so; the greatest must wait his
permission before they can place a finger upon us. The wicked would devour us
if they could, but they cannot even cheat us of a farthing without divine
sufferance. Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes. Pharaoh and
Abimelech must both be made to respect the singular strangers who had come to
sojourn in their land; the greatest kings are very second-rate persons with God
in comparison with his chosen servants.
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