If these men die the common death of all men,.... Or "as every man dies" , or the generality of men, who for the most part die of one disease or another, as a fever, and the like, or through old age:or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; with such visitations as men in all ages for their sins are visited with, meaning public calamities, such as pestilence, famine, and sword:[then] the Lord hath not sent me; it may be concluded that I had no mission nor commission from the Lord to do what I have done, but may be reckoned a deceiver and an impostor; and I am content to be accounted so, should either of the above things be the case of these men.
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Numbers 16:29
Numbers 16:29
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visited: Exodus 20:5, Exodus 32:34; Job 35:15; Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 5:9; Lamentations 4:22
the Lord: 1 Kings 22:28; 2 Chronicles 18:27