The events that Matthew recorded as happening in the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies all happened as a result of human decisions and were worked out in the course of ordinary human circumstances. Were it not for the inspired commentary by Matthew, we would have no more reason to see the sovereign hand of God in them than we do in the most mundane occurrences reported in our daily newspapers. That being true, then, we should likewise see in those affairs reported in our daily paper the sovereign hand of God just as much as we see it in the Bible. Of course, we don’t have the advantage
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