But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate children, and not sons.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
In these last four verses we may observe as many subjects of consolation under afflictions. God, our Father, is the author of them; the chastisement he inflicts is the proof of his love; it is the sign or mark of our divine adoption; it is a necessary condition of our being adopted.
