約翰福音講道集 第 61 章 第 2/2 段

For outside, while you discourse of such things, many will even laugh, being dissolved by their great luxury;

but those who are in calamities, having their mind subdued, will with much fairness give heed to what is said, and will praise, and will become better.

For when Paul too was speaking publicly, the Jews often laughed him to scorn;

but the prisoners listened with much quietness.

For nothing so prepares the soul apt for wisdom as calamity, and temptation, and pressing affliction.

Considering, then, all these things—how many good things we shall work for those within, and how many for our own selves—let us continually mingle with them, and let us spend there the times we waste in the marketplace and in untimely occupations, that we may both gain those men and gladden our own selves, and, having caused God to be glorified, may attain the eternal good things, by the grace and lovingkindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom and with whom to the Father be glory, together with the Holy Spirit, unto the ages of ages. Amen.