xxxiv. 16, 17. _Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord,
&c._
The text occurs midway between a series of predicted judgments
pronounced on Edom as the representative of the wicked world, and
another series of blessings foretold concerning the Church of God,
but it is evidently retrospective.
While a minute verification of these predictions of vengeance might
form a solid, convicting argument for the validity of trust in the
Bible as the rule of faith and practice, there is another and more
general way of regarding the text. Search into a certain book is
enjoined because it is the Book of JEHOVAH.
Human faith finds its ultimate basis in God Himself. The certainty of
the Divine judgments may therefore be inferred from--