No persons are more liable to be oppressed and wronged than widows. Nothing suggests more strikingly a state of helplessness and dependence than the condition of orphan children and widows nothing, therefore, conveys a more affecting description of the character of God - of his condescension and kindness - than to say that he will take the place of the parent in the one case, and be a protector in the other.Īnd a judge of the widows - That is, He will see justice done them he will save them from oppression and wrong. We see his greatness, his majesty, his power, in the worlds that he has made - in the storm, the tempest, the rolling ocean but it is in such expressions as this that we learn, what we most desire to know, and what we cannot elsewhere learn, that he is a Father that he is to be loved as well as feared. See Jer 49:11 : “Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me.” This is one of the most tender appellations that could be given to God, and conveys one of the most striking descriptions that can be given of his character. That is, God takes the place of the parent. ![]() ![]() A father of the fatherless - Or, of orphans.
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