Verse 14. — When He shall have fulfilled His will in me, and many other like things are ready with Him. 49. From the things we suffer we learn to dread the things we have not yet suffered. — As if he openly said: Already I weigh what I suffer, but still I dread what I may suffer. For He fulfills His will in me, because He afflicts me with many strokes. But many like things are ready with Him, because if He purposes to strike, He still finds where the wound may grow. Hence therefore it is to be considered how fearful he was before the scourge, who, even stricken, still fears lest he be struck. For considering that there is in Him an incomprehensible force both of power and of examination, the righteous man was not willing to be secure even amid the scourge. Whence, still fearing, he adds: