Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
This makes him greatly rejoice; and if to that you add that possibly before he has passed the gates of death his Master may appear--if you tell him that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming in the clouds of heaven, and though we have not seen him yet believing in him we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, expecting the second advent--if he has grace to believe in that sublime doctrine, he will be ready to clap his hands upon his bed of weariness and cry, "Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly! come quickly!" 