Vol 21 Issue 03

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. Ps. 119:74 Tribulation worketh experience! And that through patience! For thus the apostle Paul writes in Rom. 5:3, 4: ‘‘knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience,” or rather, more in accord with the meaning of the original: “patience the experienced state,” Perhaps, we may say that the relation between the preceding section of Ps. 119 and the one from which we selected the basis for the present meditation, is somewhat like that between patience and experience. In the former the poet...