Therefore, in every affliction, we ought immediately to review our past life. When we do so we shall certainly find that we have deserved such chastisement. Nevertheless, we should not draw the conclusion that we are first of all exhorted to patience because we should remember our sins. For Scripture furnishes us a far better reason when it informs us that in adversity “we are chastened by the Lord, in order that we should not be condemned with the world.”
