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title: 'Green on True Comfort in Affliction'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-12-03
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-green-on-true-comfort-in-affliction
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# Green on True Comfort in Affliction

“What would it be to encounter frowning providences without the distinct understanding that these are nevertheless consistent with the abiding, unchanging love of our heavenly Father? They are not tokens of His displeasure; they are not evidences that He has withdrawn His love or has shut up His tender mercies. On the contrary, whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. There is a paternal discipline in affliction. It has a gracious design, and will have a salutary result. The rod is in a loving Father’s hand: its strokes are not capriciously nor unkindly given, they are administered solely for our good.” — [**William Henry Green**](/authors/william-henry-green), *The Argument of the Book of Job Unfolded* (1874), pp. 80-81