God’s Toleration of Human Weakness

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

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God’s Toleration of Human Weakness

with captive wives. This was much more merciful than it was in the surrounding nations. God did the best He could with the material He had to deal with. Israelites after their long sojourn in Egypt certainly were but little removed from the heathen themselves, and the very laws that they had showed that the origin of these laws was divine. The Lord suffered many things because the people could not be brought to see them, and He will not force men to be machines.