He who reasons thus puts himself into the purity of Paradise. For just as the prophet says (cf. Hab. 3:15): “Your horses were in the mud of many waters, and yet your chariots were salvation,” so it also happens in the household, in the government, and in the church. All have a very great abundance of annoyances, and yet those who regard the Word keep an even temper and experience deliverance. For God often puts on a beggar’s mantle, as is wont to happen on the stage, although He is King of kings