of an eye. Yet, all the chaplain can do, as God’s emissary, is to bring a companionship to the sufferer. Yet it is a special companionship, to a specific sufferer, at a specific moment in history. God’s deliverance is always concrete and specific: the Exodus from Egypt, the theophany at Sinai, the conquest of Canaan, the enthronement on Zion, the birth at Bethlehem, the crucifixion at Calvary, the empty tomb—the chaplain at the bedside. That’s how concrete and specific God’s engagement is with suffering