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Previous  Next   Hymn VI.  1.  Would that the memory of the
fathers would exhale from the tombs; who were very simple as
being wise, and reverend as believing.  They without cavilling
searched for, and came to the right path.  He gave the law; the
mountains melted away; fools broke through it.  By unclean
ravens He fed Elijah at the desert stream; and moreover gave
from the skeleton honey unto Samson.  They judged not, nor
inquired why it was unclean, why clean.  2.  And when He made
void the sabbaths, the feeble Gentiles were clothed with
health.  Samson took the daughter of the aliens, and there was
no disputing among the righteous; the prophet also took a
harlot, and the just held their peace.  He blamed the
righteous, 542 and He held up and lifted up [to view] their
delinquencies:  He pitied sinners, 543 and restored them without
cost:  and made low the mountains of their sins: 544   He proved
that God is not to be arraigned by men, and as Lord of T