I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
See, how he shows, that both by kindnesses, and by chastisements, and by miracles, God was drawing them to Him: but they were still the same. That God is everywhere present, they learned.
Hearing these things, let us in our afflictions flee to Him. And their groaning, says He, I have heard: not simply, because of their calamities. But if any should ask, Why then did He suffer them to be evil entreated there? Why, in the first place, to every just man his sufferings are the causes of his rewards. And in the next place, as to why He afflicted them: it was to show His power, that He can (do all), and not only so, but that He may also train them. Observe in fact; when they were in the desert, then they waxed fat, they grew thick, they spread out in breadth, they kicked Deuteronomy 32:15: and ever and always ease was an evil. Therefore also from the beginning He said to Adam: In the sweat of your face you shall eat your bread. Genesis 3:19 Also (it was) in order that having come out of muc...
See, how he shows, that both by kindnesses, and by chastisements, and by miracles, God was drawing them to Him: but they were still the same. That God is everywhere present, they learned.
Hearing these things, let us in our afflictions flee to Him. And their groaning, says He, I have heard: not simply, because of their calamities. But if any should ask, Why then did He suffer them to be evil entreated there? Why, in the first place, to every just man his sufferings are the causes of his rewards. And in the next place, as to why He afflicted them: it was to show His power, that He can (do all), and not only so, but that He may also train them. Observe in fact; when they were in the desert, then they waxed fat, they grew thick, they spread out in breadth, they kicked Deuteronomy 32:15: and ever and always ease was an evil. Therefore also from the beginning He said to Adam: In the sweat of your face you shall eat your bread. Genesis 3:19 Also (it was) in order that having come out of m...
