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For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won`t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won`t delay.
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God's Paradoxical Timing
Commentators explain the apparent contradiction that the vision will "tarry" yet "will not delay." From our impatient human perspective, God's plan can seem slow. However, from God's perspective, it is unfolding perfectly on schedule and will not be a moment late. As Charles Spurgeon puts it, "To us, it appears to tarry; but, in God's way of reckoning, it does not really tarry."
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Habakkuk
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the vision is yet for an (the) appointed time - Not for the present, but to develop itself in the course of time, down to a season which…
19th Century
Anglican
For the vision is yet for an appointed time... — Better: For the vision is to have its appointed day, and it pants fo…
Baptist
Is that a contradiction—Though it tarry, ... it will not tarry?
No; to us, it appears to tarry; but, in God's way of reckoning, it …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time Not the present vision only, but vision or prophecy in general: it was…
When tossed and perplexed with doubts about the methods of Providence, we must watch against temptations to be impatient. When we have poured out c…
