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Ifk thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the δmatter: for hel that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there bem higher than they.

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Eccl. 3:16• ¹⁶And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. (Eccl. 3:16)

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will, or, purpose.

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Psa. 12:5• ⁵For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. (Psa. 12:5)

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Psa. 58:11• ¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. (Psa. 58:11)

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Psa. 95:3• ³For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. (Psa. 95:3)

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thou seest.

Eccl. 3:16• ¹⁶And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. (Eccl. 3:16)

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Eccl. 4:1• ¹So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. (Eccl. 4:1)

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Psa. 12:5• ⁵For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. (Psa. 12:5)

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Psa. 55:9• ⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. (Psa. 55:9)

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Psa. 58:11• ¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. (Psa. 58:11)

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Prov. 8:17• ¹⁷I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. (Prov. 8:17)

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Hab. 1:2‑3,13• ²O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
³Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
¹³Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? (Hab. 1:2‑3,13)

marvel.

Zech. 8:6• ⁶Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of hosts. (Zech. 8:6)

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1 John 3:13• ¹³Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (1 John 3:13)

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Rev. 17:6‑7• ⁶And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
⁷And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. (Rev. 17:6‑7)

matter.

Heb. will, or purpose.

Isa. 10:5‑7,12• ⁵O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
⁶I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. (Isa. 10:5‑7,12)

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Isa. 46:10‑11• ¹⁰Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
¹¹Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. (Isa. 46:10‑11)

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Hab. 1:12• ¹²Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. (Hab. 1:12)

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Acts 4:27‑28• ²⁷For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
²⁸For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. (Acts 4:27‑28)

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Rom. 11:33• ³³O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Rom. 11:33)

for.

Isa. 57:15• ¹⁵For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. (Isa. 57:15)

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Luke 1:32,35,76• ³²He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
³⁵And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
⁷⁶And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; (Luke 1:32,35,76)

regardeth.

1 Kings 21:19‑20• ¹⁹And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
²⁰And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord. (1 Kings 21:19‑20)

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Job 20:19‑29• ¹⁹Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
²⁰Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
²¹There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
²²In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
²³When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
²⁴He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
²⁵It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
²⁶All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
²⁷The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
²⁸The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. (Job 20:19‑29)

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Job 27:8‑23• ⁸For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
⁹Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
¹¹I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
¹²Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
¹³This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
¹⁴If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
¹⁵Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
¹⁶Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
¹⁷He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
¹⁸He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
¹⁹The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
²⁰Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
²¹The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
²²For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
²³Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. (Job 27:8‑23)

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Psa. 10:17‑18• ¹⁷Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. (Psa. 10:17‑18)

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Psa. 12:5• ⁵For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. (Psa. 12:5)

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Psa. 58:10‑11• ¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. (Psa. 58:10‑11)

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Psa. 82:1• ¹<<A Psalm of Asaph.>> God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. (Psa. 82:1)

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Psa. 83:18• ¹⁸That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. (Psa. 83:18)

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Psa. 140:11‑12• ¹¹Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
¹²I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor. (Psa. 140:11‑12)

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Isa. 3:15• ¹⁵What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. (Isa. 3:15)

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Isa. 5:7• ⁷For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. (Isa. 5:7)

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Isa. 59:13‑16• ¹³In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
¹⁵Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
¹⁶And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. (Isa. 59:13‑16)

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Jer. 22:17‑19• ¹⁷But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
¹⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
¹⁹He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. (Jer. 22:17‑19)

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Ezek. 22:6‑14• ⁶Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
⁷In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
⁸Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
⁹In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
¹⁰In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
¹¹And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
¹²In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
¹³Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
¹⁴Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. (Ezek. 22:6‑14)

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Amos 5:12• ¹²For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. (Amos 5:12)

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Amos 6:2‑6,12• ²Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
³Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
⁴That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
⁵That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;
⁶That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
¹²Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: (Amos 6:2‑6,12)

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Amos 8:4‑7• ⁴Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
⁵Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
⁶That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
⁷The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. (Amos 8:4‑7)

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Mic. 2:1‑3,9• ¹Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
³Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
⁹The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. (Mic. 2:1‑3,9)

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Mic. 3:1‑4,9‑12• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
²Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
⁴Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
⁹Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
¹⁰They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
¹¹The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
¹²Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Mic. 3:1‑4,9‑12)

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Mic. 6:10‑13• ¹⁰Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
¹¹Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
¹²For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
¹³Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. (Mic. 6:10‑13)

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Zech. 7:9‑13• ⁹Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
¹⁰And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
¹¹But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
¹²Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.
¹³Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts: (Zech. 7:9‑13)

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Mal. 3:5• ⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)

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James 2:13• ¹³For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. (James 2:13)

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James 5:2‑7• ²Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
³Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
⁴Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
⁵Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
⁶Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
⁷Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. (James 5:2‑7)

higher than they.

1 Chron. 21:15‑16• ¹⁵And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
¹⁶And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. (1 Chron. 21:15‑16)

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Psa. 95:3• ³For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. (Psa. 95:3)

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Isa. 37:36• ³⁶Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. (Isa. 37:36)

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Matt. 13:41‑42• ⁴¹The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
⁴²And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 13:41‑42)

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Acts 12:7‑10,23• ⁷And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
⁸And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
⁹And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.
¹⁰When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
²³And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. (Acts 12:7‑10,23)

• “Marvel not”; think it not strange, as though some strange thing were happening; thou art only looking on a weed-plant that everywhere flourishes ‘under the sun,’ and still thou mayest remember that these oppressors themselves, high though they be, have superiors above them: yea, in the ever-ascending scale of ranks and orders thou mayest have to go to the Highest―God Himself; but the same truth hold good, and He shall yet call powers and governors to answer for the exercise of their authorities. (“Ecclesiastes 5” by F.C. Jennings)

• Our own dear apostle seems to have dropped for a moment from his higher vantage-ground to the level of Solomon’s wisdom when smarting under “oppression and the violent perverting of judgment,” he cried to the high priest, “God [the higher than the highest] shall smite thee, thou whited wall.”....Not so in the silent suffering of “violent oppression” at Philippi. There he and his companion have surely comfort beyond any that Solomon can offer, and the overflowing joy of their hearts comes from no spring that rises in this sad desert scene. (“Ecclesiastes 5” by F.C. Jennings)

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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.