1 Sam 3:8

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the third.

Job 33:14; Job 33:15

Although Samuel did not apprehend the way in which God reveals himself to his servants the prophets--by the "still small voice"--yet when this direct communication from the Almighty was made the third time, in a way altogether new and strange to him, it seems astonishing that he did not immediately apprehend.

Perhaps he would have been sooner aware of a divine revelation, had it come in a dream or a vision.

Those who have the greatest knowledge of divine things, should remember the time when they were as babes, unskilful in the word of righteousness.

1Cor 13:11; 1Cor 13:12