altogether a matter of divine toleration, because of God’s own purpose, and not because of human desert, they would most easily enter into this parable, and take the truly modest and perfectly reasonable attitude apostolically enjoined when we are commanded to “work out our own salvation with fear and trembling,” and to “pass the time of our sojourning here in fear.” There was, of course, a special applicability in the parable to the generation contemporary with Jesus. The divine displeasure