W Barclay wrote the following ,'The Jews knew nothing of secondary causes. We say that certain atmospheric conditions, certain variations in temperature ,certain alterations in atmospheric pressure, certain land and mountains configurations,cause certain things to happen in nature,In every such case the Jew ascribed it all to the direct action of God. We explain the rain and the wind and the thunder and lightning by bringing forward the scientific causes of them; the Jew quite simply said,God sent the rain; God made the wind blow; God thundered; God sent His lightening. In Jewish thought everything was described to the direct intervention of God; we tend to abscribe everything to secondary causes.'
'With God there are no secondary
Causes'
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