* the third.
  Job 33:14,15 
   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.

  1Co 13:11,12