And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and the iron did swim.
Ver. 6. And cut down a stick.] Which, cast in by the prophet, became as a lodestone to draw the iron to it; and, as the Hebrews say, a a helve or handle for the hatchet into the eye whereof it fell right, and so both, by a double miracle, came up together. Demersam fluvio relevavit virga securim, saith Tertullian.
And the iron did swim.] God can as easily make our hard and heavy hearts, sunk down into the world's mud, to float upon the streams of life, and to see the face of heaven again.
a R. Solomon.