the most awful judgment (Ps. 51). In comparison with what sinners actually deserve, their most severe sufferings in this world are not punishments but mere warnings of the wrath which is to come. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord” (Rom. 12:19). If these things be so (and we are not here attempting to prove them) a very great light falls on the problem of human suffering. Indeed, its whole character changes. The worst suffering which any man is ever called upon to endure in this world
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