Appointed to Affliction
J. Hutchison, D. D. 1 Thessalonians 3:3-5 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.… Church history nowhere gives a more striking illustration of these words, and of the power which lies in them to strengthen and comfort, than in the story of the banishment of some five thousand bishops and presbyters, with their adherents, into the desert, by Hunneric, during the African persecutions of the sixth century. They were torn from their homes, and shut up amid squalor and hunger in a small prison, and afterwards driven, with every species of maltreatment, over the burning sands. Yet the song of that suffering pilgrim band had its constant refrain, "Such glory have all God's saints." (J. Hutchison, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. WEB: that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.