Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
Ver. 22. Comfort your hearts] It is God that comforts by the creatures, as by conduit pipes. The air yields light as an instrument; the water may heat, but not of itself. When a potion is given in beer, the beer of itself doth not work, but the potion by the beer. So in this case.