Job 38:35 Can you send lightning, that they may go and say to you, Here we are? Yes, we can. It is done thousands of times every day. Franklin, at Boston, lassoed the lightnings, and Morse put on them a wire bit, turning them around from city to city, and Cyrus W. Field plunged them into the sea; and whenever the telegraphic instrument clicks at Valentia, or Heart's Content, or London, or New York, the lightnings of heaven are exclaiming in the words of my text, "Here we are!" we await your bidding; we listen to your command. What painstaking since the day when Thales, 600 years before Christ, discovered frictional electricity by the rubbing of amber; and Wimbler, in the last century, sent electric currents along metallic wires, until in our day, Faraday, and Bain, and Henry, and Morse, and Prescott, and Orton — some in one way and some in another way, have helped the lightnings of heaven to come bounding along, crying, "Here we are!" (T. De Witt Talmage.). Parallel Verses KJV: Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?WEB: Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?' |
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