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Updated: May 5, 2025

"Do you believe Paley?" insisted the parson, who would always have his questions answered directly. "There's a good deal of Paley: what do you mean?" said John, laughing evasively. "I mean his ground idea-the corner stone of his doctrine -his pou sto. I mean do you believe that we can infer the existence and character of God from any evidences of design that we see in the universe "

James Lane Allen - The Choir Invisible

And the same result follows, not by miracle, but by natural necessity. Haggai puts these results in our text with bitter, indignant amplification. His words are all the working out of one idea-the unprofitableness, on the whole and in the long-run, of a godless life.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture : Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII