48. He gave up their cattle also to the hail. What hail it must have been to have force enough to batter down
bullocks and other great beasts. God usually protects animals from such
destruction, but here he withdrew his safeguards and gave them up; may the Lord
never give us up. Some read, “shut up,” and the idea of being abandoned to destructive influences is then
before us in another shape. And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. Fire
was mingled with the hail and smote the smaller cattle. Hard were those hearts
which afterwards forgot all that the Lord had done, and broke off from their
allegiance to him.
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