“If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.”
The observation that if clouds are full of rain they will empty on the earth, and if a tree falls to the north or south, it lies as fallen, presents natural processes as deterministic. The image suggests that once conditions are set (clouds full, tree falling), outcomes follow necessarily. Yet the verse may also suggest that humans cannot know all future outcomes.
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