that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
It should be noted, however, that Paul is not speaking here about "an ultimate destiny, but a temporary experience ordained as a means to an end. Though affliction is the common lot of the godly, 2 Timothy 3:12, it is transient, not eternal, cp. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18" (Hogg and Vine 94).