Treasury of Scripture
the third
Job 33:14,15 For God speaks once, yes twice, yet man perceives it not...
Although Samuel did not apprehend the way in which God reveals himself to his servants the prophets - by the `still small voice'- yet when this direct communication from the Almighty was made the third time, in a way altogether new and strange to him, it seems astonishing that he did not immediately apprehend. Perhaps he would have been sooner aware of a divine revelation, had it come in a dream or a vision. Those who have the greatest knowledge of divine things, should remember the time when they were as babes, unskilful in the word of righteousness
1 Corinthians 13:11,12 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man...