y, JOD.--The Tenth Part.JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me,.... Not the psalmist himself, nor his parents, but the Lord alone: for though parents are fathers of our flesh, they are but instruments in the hand of the Lord; though man is produced by natural generation, yet the formation and fashioning of men are as much owing to the power and wisdom of God, which are his hands, as the formation of Adam was.
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Psalms 119:73
Psalms 119:73
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being: Thy hands have made me and fashioned me, Job x. 8. Every man is
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