wisely ordered, and are working for good. Like children, we are poor judges of half-fiuished work.
Chrysostom says: "Christ tarried that none might be able to assert that He restored Lazarus when not yet dead, saying it was a lethargy, a fainting, a fit, but not death. He therefore tarried so long that corruption began."
Calvin observes : " Let believers learn to suspend their desires, if God does not stretch out His hand to help as soon as they think necessity requires. Whatever may be His delays, he never sleeps and never forgets His people/'
Quesnel remarks : "God permits evil, that He may make the power of His grace and the might of His love more conspicuous in the conversion of a sinner."
Poole remarks : " We must not judge of Christ's love to us by His mere external dispensations of providence, nor judge that He doth not love us, because He doth not presently come in to our help at our time, and in such ways and methods as we think reasonable."