32. But whether keenly
contending, that we be not overcome, or overcoming divers times, or
even with unhoped and unlooked for ease, let us give the glory unto
Him Who giveth continence unto us. Let us remember that a certain
just man said, “I shall never be moved:” and that it was showed
him how rashly he had said this, attributing as though to his own
strength, what was given to him from above. But this we have learnt
from his own confession: for soon after he added, “Lord, in Thy
will Thou hast given strength to my beauty; but Thou hast turned
away Thy Face, and I was troubled.” Through a remedial Providence he
was for a short time deserted by his Ruler, in order that he might
not himself through deadly pride desert his Ruler. Therefore, whether here, where we engage with our faults in order to subdue and make them less, or there, as it shall be in the end, where we shall be void of every enemy, because of all infection, it is for our health that we are thus dealt with, in order that, “whoso glorieth, he may glory in the Lord.”