10Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. …
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The deliverance of God’s people out of their captivity in Babylon was a thing upon many accounts so improbable that there was need of line upon line for the encouragement of the faith and hope of God’s people concerning it. Two things were discouraging to them—their own unworthiness that God should do it for them and the many difficulties in the thing itself; now, in these verses, both these disco…
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