1 Peter 1:6
Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In quo exsultabis, modicum nunc si oportet contristari in variis tentationibus :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- ἐν ᾧ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε, ὀλίγον ἄρτι εἰ δέον λυπηθέντες ἐν ποικίλοις πειρασμοῖς,
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XX. A Good Wife
For with perfect propriety Scripture has said that woman is given by God as “an help” to man. It is evident, then, in my opinion, that she will charge herself with remedying, by good sense and persuasion, each of the annoyances that originate with her husband in domestic economy. And if he do not yield, then she will endeavour, as far as possible for human nature, to lead a sinless life; whether it be necessary to die, in accordance with reason, or to live; considering that God is her helper and associate in such a course of conduct, her true defender and Saviour both for the present and for the future; making Him the leader and guide of all her actions, reckoning sobriety and righteousness her work, and making the favour of God her end. …