Was upon me ... was opened - Instead of 'was,' read "had been." The prophet was under the hand of God in ecstatic trance on the evening pr…

Was upon me. —The sentence becomes clearer by translating this in the pluperfect: The hand of the Lord had been (alre…

Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening, before he
that was escaped came
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Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in the blessings …