all true gold must feel the fire; all wheat must be threshed; all diamonds must be cut; all saints must endure temptation. 1. They are tempted from all quarters. It is as Christ’s parable puts it concerning the house whose foundation was on the rock: “The rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house but it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.” The descending rain may represent temptations from above; the floods pouring their devastating torrents upon the land