The Furnace Needed for Perfection of Character
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.


"He would be a nice person," wrote George Eliot in one of her letters concerning one, who might have been many a modern prosperous man, "if he had another soul added to the one he has by nature — the soul that comes by sorrow and love."



Parallel Verses
KJV: Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

WEB: Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.




The Divine Aim in Human Affliction
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