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Topic:
Thoughts
And Things Of The Bible -- Chance
With respect to the word "chance…"
(Luke 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by
that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact
fulfillment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the
wounded traveler, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr. sungkuria)
the priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two things, in
fact, which were previously constituted a pair in the providence of God.
In the result they fell together according to the omniscient Designer's
plan. This is the true theory of the divine government." Compare
the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26, 27). There is no
"chance" in God's empire. "Chance" is only another
word for our want of knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in
with another (1 Sam. 6:9; Eccl. 9:11).
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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