Definition of "divine intervention" [divine intervention]

• Direct and obvious intervention by a god in the affairs of humans. (noun)

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• "In addition he has a solemn word of request to make, to which he binds the Israelites by oath, namely that they are ultimately to bring his bones up to the land of promise, that is to say at the time when they are themselves brought up by God, an act here again rightly described as a "visiting" (paqodh), a term descriptive of every act of divine intervention in the lives of men."