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When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:
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The Purpose of Tribulation
Commentators explain that hardship is not pointless but serves a divine purpose. John Calvin calls tribulation a "remedy" that, while grievous, ultimately leads people back to God. Matthew Henry agrees, stating that "afflictions engage and stir us to seek God," helping to bring people back to their right minds by showing them the painful results of turning away.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different tone.
16th Century
Protestant
When thou art in tribulation. He here shows the advantage of punishments, on the basis of their usefulness and benefit; for what the Apost…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When you are in tribulation In a strange land, in the power of a foreign enemy, and used ill:
and…
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