For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
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Jerome
AD 420
We read in the book of Job how, while the first messenger of evil was yet speaking, there came also another; and in the same book it is written, “Is there not a temptation”—or as the Hebrew better gives it—“a warfare to man upon earth?” It is for this end that we labor, it is for this end that we risk our lives in the warfare of this world, that we may be crowned in the world to come. That we should believe this to be true of people is nothing wonderful, for even the Lord was tempted, and of Abraham the Scripture bears witness that God tested him. It is for this reason also that the apostle says, “We glory in tribulations … knowing that tribulation works perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint.” And in another passage [we read], “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or family or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written, ‘for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ ” The prophet Isaiah comforts those in a similar case in these words: “You who are weaned from the milk, you who are drawn from the breasts, look for tribulation upon tribulation, but also for hope upon hope.” For, as the apostle puts it, “The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
