10. He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? He reproves whole nations; can he not reprove individuals? The question
which follows is equally full of force, and is asked with a degree of warmth
which checks the speaker, and causes the inquiry to remain incomplete. It
begins, He that teacheth man knowledge, and then it comes to a pause,
which the translators have supplied with the word, shall not he know?
But no such words are in the original, where the sentence comes to an abrupt
end, as if the inference were too natural to need to be stated, and the writer
had lost patience with the brutish men with whom he had argued. The earnest
believer often feels as if he could say, “Go to, you are not worth arguing with!” Human knowledge comes from God. Science in its first principles was
taught to our progenitor Adam, and all after advances have been due to divine
aid; does not the author and revealer of all knowledge himself know?
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