These conclusions fail, I say: for since there are many things which have never happened and never will happen, and which nevertheless are clearly conceivable, and imply no contradiction, how can one say they are altogether impossible?
It is not impossible for what is foreseen not to happen; but it is infallibly sure that it will happen.
And if he means that God merely knows that it may happen one way or the other without knowing definitely which will happen, then we call this in our experience uncertainty and perplexity, not knowledge.
If he means that God knows it will happen in a certain way, and yet it may turn out that the reverse will actually take place, then we call this in our case error, not knowledge.
If he means that God knows that the contingent may as contingent happen otherwise than as he knows it will happen, we do not call this in us knowledge, but opinion.
Every event is in itself certain, not probable: if we knew all, we should either know positively that it will happen, or positively that it will not.
It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.
It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.
Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?
It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land.
It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
This, I persuade myself, will happen, from that degree of sense which I think you have; and therefore I will go on advising, and with hopes of success.
The same thing, I dare say, will happen to you at Paris; where they are particularly kind to all strangers, who will be civil to them, and show a desire of pleasing.
It will happenin that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples.
Every event is in itself certain, not probable; if we knew all, we should either know positively that it will happen, or positively that it will not.
It had been intended as a warning merely for the crowd; but, as it will happen in such cases, it produced exactly the opposite effect to what had been intended.
The young girl had, as it will happen, felt all the changes of her own heart which she described in her letter, once more in their full strength.
It will happen at times that two queens will be hatched simultaneously, the occurrence being rare, however, for the bees take special care to prevent it.
The real crime of the ministry is, that they have found the means of avoiding their own ruin; but the charge against them is multifarious and confused, as will happen, when malice and discontent are ashamed of their complaint.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "will happen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
