Ceux que le Seigneur a adoptés et jugés dignes de sa communion doivent se préparer à une vie dure, pénible et tranquille, remplie de maux très nombreux et variés. C'est la volonté du Père céleste de les exercer ainsi afin de mettre ses propres enfants à l'épreuve. En commençant par le Christ, son premier-né, il suit ce plan avec tous ses enfants.
Jean Calvin
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father’s will thus to exercise them so as to put His own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, His first-born, He follows this plan with all His children.
John Calvin