* the word of the Lord.
"A great clamour," says Dr. Kennicott, "has been raised
against this part of history, on account of God's denouncing
sentence on the true prophet by the mouth of the false
prophet; but if we examine with attention the original words
here, they will be found to signify either he who brought him
back, or, whom he had brought back; for the very same words,
{asher heshivo,} occur again, ver. 23, where they are now
translated, whom he had brought back; and where they cannot be
translated otherwise. This being the case, we are at liberty
to consider the words of the Lord as delivered to the true
prophet, thus brought back; and then the sentence is
pronounced by God himself, calling to him out of heaven, as in
Ge 22:11. And that this doom was thus pronounced by God, not
by the false prophet, we are assured in ver. 26. 'The Lord
hath delivered him unto the lion, according to the word of the
Lord, which He spake unto him.' Josephus [and also the
Arabic] asserts, that the sentence was declared by God to the
true prophet."
Nu 23:5,16 24:4,16-24 Mt 7:22 Joh 11:51 1Co 13:2
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