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For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
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Trials as Purification
Commentators unanimously see God's trials not as punishment for destruction, but as a refining process. Like a silversmith using fire to purify silver and remove dross, God uses affliction to test the genuineness of our faith, purge sin, and prove our devotion is real. As John Gill notes, this process proves believers are true and faithful, not 'reprobate silver'.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For thou, O God, hast proved us - That is, You have tried us; You have tested the reality of our attachment to you, as silver is tried by …
19th Century
Baptist
You have tried us, as silver is tried. You brought us into the net.
Entangled, surrounded, captive, held fast. Many of God's people …
16th Century
Protestant
For thou, O God! hast proved us: we may read, Though thou, O God! and so on, and then the passage comes in as a qualification of …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you, O God, have proved us And by the experiment found them to be true and faithful; to have the truth of grace,…
The Lord not only preserves our temporal life, but maintains the spiritual life which he has given to believers. By afflictions we are proved, as s…
