14.  Again, Jeroboam was standing at the altar sacrificing to the idols:  his hand became withered, because he commanded the Prophet who reproved him to be seized:  but having by experience learned the power of the man before him, he says, Entreat the face of the Lord thy God 1 Kings xiii. 6.; and because of this saying his hand was restored again.  If the Prophet healed Jeroboam, is Christ not able to heal and deliver thee from thy sins?  Manasses also was utterly wicked, who sawed Isaiah asunder Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, § 120 charges the Jews with having cut out a passage referring to the death of Isaiah.  Theophylact commenting on Heb. xi. 37, says:  “They were sawn asunder, as Isaiah by Manasses:  and they say that he was sawn with a wooden saw, that his punishment might be the more painful to him from being prolonged.”  Jerome on Is. i. 10, says that he was slain because of his calling the Jews “princes of Sodom and people of Gomorra,” and because he said, “I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up.”, and was defiled with all kinds of idolatries, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood 2 Chron. xxxiii. 12, 13.; but having been led captive to Babylon he used his experience of misfortune for a healing course of repentance:  for the Scripture saith that Manasses humbled himself before the Lord, and prayed, and the Lord heard him, and brought him back to his kingdom.  If He who sawed the Prophet asunder was saved by repentance, shall not thou then, having done no such great wickedness, be saved?