Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 6:5
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2 Kings6:5
5 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas master, for it was borrowed .
The Iron fell from the Wood.
He was the more concerned, partly, because he was now forced to be idle and useless to them in the common Work; and partly, because it was his Friends loss, who now was likely to suffer for his kindness; and as Justice obliged him to restore it, so his Poverty disenabled him from it.
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