For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Fire and water, which the Egyptians considered as the emblems of purity, (Horus. xli.) and which here denote the greatest tribulations. (Calmet)
The just still overcome by God's grace, (Worthington) notwithstanding all the efforts of tyrants who may be set over them. (Menochius)