Hidden Things Searched Out
J. Reid Howatt. Obadiah 1:6-9 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! All that any test or trial can do is to show what was in us already. In many places of the East there is the horrible disease called leprosy. When a man is feeling ill they have a curious way of discovering whether he has leprosy or not. They light a candle and put salt on the wick, and the face of every one who has not leprosy is white or pale, but if leprosy is in any one's blood, crimson spots appear on his face. The same thing can be done by the camera; a photograph will reveal the spots when the natural eye cannot see them. You sometimes do what, a moment before, you never thought you possibly could have done, and mother says she could not have believed it of you; yet it has been done. How's that? Simply because it was in your heart before, and only wanted the opportunity to come out. (J. Reid Howatt.) Parallel Verses KJV: How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! WEB: How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!