For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Worketh. In the Greek, katergazetai, which the English Bible of the year 1577 falsely renders by prepareth, unwilling to allow, with the apostle, that tribulation worketh eternal glory. The ardour with which the apostle speaks is sufficient to inspire the most timid with courage. A life full of crosses, labours, persecutions, injuries he calls momentary and light, if compared with the eternal, immense, and incomprehensible glory prepared for us. (St. Augustine)
All earthly substance, compared with the happiness of heaven, is rather a loss than a gain. This life, when put in comparison with that to come, is rather a death than life. (St. Gregory in Evangel.)
