I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my God. For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more; teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
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