Chance: (Luke 10:31) "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road
at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment
of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the wounded
traveller, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr. sungkuria) the
priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two things, in fact,
which were previously constituted a pair in the providence of God. In
the result they fell together according to the omniscient Designer's
plan. This is the true theory of the divine government." Compare the
meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian
(Acts 8:26,27) There is no "chance"
in God's empire. "Chance" is only another word for our want of
knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another
(1 Samuel 6:9; Ecclesiastes 9:11)
