And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Ver. 12. And after the fire a still small voice.] This was scintillatio Divinitatis, saith Tertullian, a small sparkle of the Deity, a sweet expression of God's mind. And in this gentle and mild breath there was omnipotency; in the foregoing fierce representations there was but powerfulness. God's saving revelation of himself, saith Mr Diodate here, is in the gospel only, which soundeth grace and comfort, and not in his terrible law. Hereby also is showed, saith another, that God hath sanctified a voice to be the ordinary mean of coming to his creature, mastering the strongholds of sin and Satan in us.