32. But whether keenly
contending, that we be not overcome, or overcoming divers times, or
even with unhoped and unlooked for ease, let us give the glory unto
Him Who giveth continence unto us. Let us remember that a certain
just man said, “I shall never be moved:” and that it was showed
him how rashly he had said this, attributing as though to his own
strength, what was given to him from above. But this we have learnt
from his own confession: for soon after he added, “Lord, in Thy
will Thou hast given strength to my beauty; but Thou hast turned
away Thy Face, and I was troubled.”1931
Through a remedial Providence he
was for a short time deserted by his
Ruler, in order that he might
not himself through
deadly pride desert his
Ruler. Therefore,
whether here, where we engage with our faults in order to
subdue
and make them less, or there, as it shall be in the end, where we
shall be
void of every
enemy, because of all infection,
1932
it is for
our health that we are thus dealt with, in order that, “whoso
glorieth, he may glory in the Lord.”
1933
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