Sentences with phrase «present vicissitudes»
If God's activity is not readily apparent within the present Vicissitudes of good and evil, that is because his hand is now stayed, but if God has the power to actualize the good unambiguously, then his goodness requires that he do so, and that right early.
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With its original picturesque emphasis upon the vicissitudes endured by the seed, and the consequent heightening of the success aspects of the harvest, this parable was probably originally concerned to inculcate confidence in God's future; but for our purposes we must note only that it does look from the present to the future, from the seed - time to the harvest, from a beginning to its consummation.