Verse 11
11. Strengthened Another element of the walk worthy of the Lord, has respect to the spirit with which all persecutions and tribulations should be met. More than a merely human strength is requisite for a proper endurance of trials, injuries, and wrongs, in order that the soul shall be kept in purity and peace, without resentment or disturbance of its rest in Christ, and also for that longsuffering which is forbearance toward opposers, gainsayers, persecutors, and those who injure us, as well as for the active duties of religion.
All might Every form of strength. A divine invigoration of every faculty of the soul is asked for. For the grandest human power has its bounds, beyond which it is but absolute weakness. Over against it is set the almightiness of God, whose infiniteness is the only degree of strength which he can give his trusting child. Suffering with joyfulness Triumph in the fire, of which the glorious company of martyrs are witnesses, thus becomes a possibility.
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