(18) В¶ Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.
Now the Lord in his providence had brought Saul to Samuel, and all the great events those two persons had to transact together, as the sequel of their history shows, began in this way. I would have the Reader remark with me, that though Saul was so handsome in his person, yet the great prophet Samuel was so poor and plain that Saul had no consciousness who it was when he accosted him. Such, depend upon it, are God's people in a thousand and ten thousand instances as to any outward attraction. Like their great head, there is no beauty in external appearances, that we should desire them.