| Proverbs 16:33
| Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the Lord.
| Lord. So the apostles had recourse to them, (Acts 1:26.) as the Cophts[Copts?] and Nestorians still do when there is a dispute about the election of a patriarch. (Renaudot 4:Perpet. 1:7. and 9.) --- This mode may settle disputes, Proverbs 18:18. But we must not have recourse to it, except where the Church permits, lest we become the dupes of an idle curiosity. (Calmet) --- Nothing happens by chance. (St. Augustine, City of God 5:9.) --- Septuagint, "all things come into the breast of the unjust; but all just things proceed from the Lord." (Haydock)
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