DE PESTE.

every pestilence is attracted, when even if God were using natural causes, He could nonetheless inflict this disease on bodies in another way, with the laws of nature remaining intact there too. Thus, the order of nature is not asserted if it is defended in one place but attacked in many others.

Similar to this is what is held in Exodus 12. At midnight, at a certain and limited time, every firstborn among men and cattle is slaughtered. Here a certain time is fixed, a certain kind among men and cattle, God is called the striker there, and it is said that He went around the houses door-by-door, and where He did not find the blood of the paschal lamb on the doorposts, there He struck. I wonder what reasoning from the air can be accommodated here.

Another example: 2 Kings 19. 185,000 Assyrians are killed in one night. If the pestilence arises only from the corruption of the air, if the angel himself, who is said to have gone forth and killed that multitude, first infected the air, what constellations were made so suddenly? Why did the poisoned air invade only the besiegers and not simultaneously the besieged? What law of nature divided the air with such discrimination between two camps, which were distinguished only by the walls of Jerusalem? Let as many as contemplate the majesty of divine judgments in their minds with trembling judge meanwhile how poorly these two statements can be compared. The one: The Angel of the Lord struck 185,000 Assyrians in one night; the other: 185,000 Assyrians died from infected air. I call upon those in whose minds...