tribulation

William Chambers wrote in his Edinburgh Journal in 1840: "It seems mankind are forever destined to live under some alarming apprehension ... at every interval of three, four, or five years, the community is plunged into the greatest tribulation from the number of bankruptcies and general mercantile stagnation, while ruin stares everyone in the face."

Britain's Economic Performance 1995

And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress.

Islam: Myth and Reality 1980

The word tribulation means calamity, or suffering.

Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

Then they saw the need of delay, before completely punishing the wicked, to give space for repentance, or else for accumulation of wrath (Ro 2: 15); and before completely rewarding the godly, to give room for faith and perseverance in tribulation (Ps 92: 7-12).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

If our "hope" of glory is so assured that it is a rejoicing hope, we shall find the spirit of "endurance in tribulation" natural and easy; but since it is "prayer" which strengthens the faith that begets hope and lifts it up into an assured and joyful expectancy, and since our patience in tribulation is fed by this, it will be seen that all depends on our "perseverance in prayer."

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Philadelphia alone of the seven are honored with unmixed praise, as faithful in tribulation and rich in good works.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Christ put into a crown; so much did he alter the property of them to them that are his, giving them cause to glory in tribulation, and making it to work for them a weight of glory.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Those who through grace can glory in tribulation ought to glorify God in tribulation, and give him thanks for their comforts, which abound as their afflictions do abound.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

They were such as he had an intimate acquaintance with, being not only their countryman, but their companion in tribulation; they and he were fellow-sufferers, and had lately been fellow-travellers, in very melancholy circumstances, from Judea to Babylon, and had often mingled their tears, which could not but knit their affections to each other.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Perhaps his companions in tribulation insulted over him, because he had often been disappointed of a cure; therefore Christ took him for his patient: it is his honour to side with the weakest, and bear up those whom he sees run down.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721