Questions

- K. of Gr. R., Mich., asks: - In II Sam. 12:20, how must it be explained that David ceased fasting the moment he heard that the child was dead, something which his servants did not understand either? Answer. It seems to me that David himself supplies the an­swer to this question, when he replies to the question of his servants, vs. 22: While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said: who knoweth whether Jehovah will not be gracious to me, that the child may live ? But now he...