"If you want to know something about the life of Christians or about the legends of the saints, no matter what they are, I shall tell you in a few words. If you are a Christian, no matter in what order you are, God will trouble you in various ways through the devil, the world, and the flesh; and He will do so in this ordinary life, which is without any special outward show. Therefore faith and prayer should be conspicuous throughout the entire life of Christians. Everywhere in the account of Abraham you see an example of this. There is danger that his wife is being taken from him. But even though he cannot shut grief out of his heart, he does not utterly despair but calls upon God and believes that God will bring help. And as he believes, so it happens. “He rebuked great kings on their account,” says Ps. 105:14. So Abimelech, too, is rebuked on account of Abraham."
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