{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1894,"date_label":"1894 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1894,"edition_year":1894,"edition_year_basis":"Original NPNF Series II Volume XI title and copyright, 1894; transcription physical printing year unknown","id":"ws-library-full-note:5fa1956fa5a283f75fb1:cite_note-4","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter XI.; original source section: Chapter 11; original book/conference: VI. Conference of Abbot Theodore., editorial note cite_note-4","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["Well then, though we say that trial is twofold, i.e., in prosperity and in adversity, yet you must know that all men are tried in three different ways. Often for their probation, sometimes for their improvement, and in some cases because their sins deserve it. For their probation indeed, as we read that the blessed Abraham and Job and many of the saints endured countless tribulations; or this which is said to the people in Deuteronomy by Moses: “And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep His Commandments or no:” and this which we find in the Psalms: “I proved thee at the waters of strife.” To Job also: “Thinkest thou that I have spoken for any other cause than that thou mightest be seen to be righteous?” But for improvement, when God chastens his righteous ones for some small and venial sins, or to raise them to a higher state of purity, and delivers them over to various trials, that He may purge away all their unclean thoughts, and, to use the prophet’s word, the “dross,” which he sees to have collected in their secret parts, and may thus transmit them like pure gold, to the judgment to come, as He allows nothing to remain in them for the fire of judgment to discover when hereafter it searches them with penal torments according to this saying: “Many are the tribulations of the righteous.” And: “My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord, neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by Him. For whom the Lord loveth He chastiseth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct? But if ye are without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and"],"source_library_url":"/library/5fa1956fa5a283f75fb1/#ws-library-full-note:5fa1956fa5a283f75fb1:cite_note-4","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_XI/John_Cassian/Conferences_of_John_Cassian,_Part_I/Conference_VI/Chapter_11#cite_note-4","translator":"Rev. Edgar C. S. Gibson (M.A.)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0061/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"7c4407a5986a306f1eaff33bf3f1bf135fc2e65f72270d1b3381ed0616bfbce3","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:5fa1956fa5a283f75fb1:cite_note-4"},"verified":true,"work":"Conferences of John Cassian, Part I","work_id":"ws-npnf2-11-cassian-f12d9718427e1844f04b"}