3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.



Ver. 3. The trial of your faith] Yea, such a well knit patience, as maketh a man suffer after he hath suffered, as David did from Shimei, but first from Absalom. Tile stones till baked are not useful; but well burnt and hardened they withstand all storms and ill-weather. See my Love Tokens, p. 170.



Knowing this] And therefore rejoicing, if not in the sense, yet in the use of your afflictions. {See Trapp on "Heb_12:10"} {See Trapp on "Heb_12:11"}