The Government of Nature
George Macdonald. Matthew 14:22-27 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him to the other side… These miracles, dealing with nature, show themselves as interfering with what we may call the righteous laws of nature. Water should wet the foot, should engulf him who would tread its surface. Yet even in this, I think, the restoration of an original law — the supremacy of righteous man, is foreshown. While a man cannot order his own house as he would, something is wrong in him, and therefore in his house. I think a true man should be able to rule winds and waters, loaves and fishes, for he comes of the Father who made the house for him. Man is not master in his own house, because he is not master in himself, because he is not a law unto himself — is not himself obedient to the law by which he exists. (George Macdonald.) Parallel Verses KJV: And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. WEB: Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.