The Young Lions' Hunger: Struggle's Perpetual Failure
David, hidden in the Cave of Adullam with his band of outlaws, surrounded by the actual lions of Palestine, seized upon these beasts as Nature's...
This is historical examples on divine provision versus human striving and the futility of material struggle, drawing on Psalms 34:10.
David, hidden in the Cave of Adullam with his band of outlaws, surrounded by the actual lions of Palestine, seized upon these beasts as Nature's sermon. The young lions—supreme in strength, armed with teeth and claws, possessed of lithe spring and predatory cunning—nonetheless 'lack, and suffer hunger.' Maclaren drives the comparison home with unsparing clarity: the men whose entire existence is 'one long fight to appropriate to themselves more and more of outward good' are living a life 'fitter for beasts than for men.'…
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