Vol 76 Issue 13

* Sermon by Herman Hoeksema, as transcribed by Martin Swart. Hoeksema was the first editor of the Standard Bearer. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope. Romans 5:3, 4 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also.” Thus the apostle introduces this mighty and, from a worldly point of view, strange confession. To what he has already said, he now adds something. In the preceding verse, the apostle has said that we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. In the original Greek,...