Enduring Trials

Omnes gurgites tui et fluctus tui super me transierunt. LXX: Omnes elevationes tuae et fluctus tui super me transiereunt. Quod super Jonam tumentes maris fluctus transiereunt, et detonuerit saeva tempestas, nulli dubium est. Quaerimus autem quomodo omnes elevationes, et gurgites, et fluctus Dei, super Salvatorem transietint. Tentatio est vita hominum super terram,  sive ut in Herbraice habetur, militia, quia hic militamus, ut alibi coronemur. Nullusque est hominum, qui cunctas sustinere queat tentationes, absque eo qui tentatus est in omnibus, juxta nostram similitudinem, sine peccato. Unde et ad Corinthios dicitur: Tentatio vos non apprehendat, nisi humana. Fidelis autem Deus qui non dimittet vos tentari supra id, quod potestis; sed faciet cum tentatione et exitum ut possitis sustinere.  Et quoniam omnes persecutiones, et universa quae accidunt, absque Dei non ingruunt voluntate: idcirco Dei gurgites dicuntur et fluctus, qui non oppresserunt Jesum, sed transierunt per eum, minantes tantum naufragium, non inferentes. Universae ergo persecutiones, et turbines, quibus genus vexabatur humanum, et cunctae naviculae frangebantur, super meum detonuere caput. Ego sustinui tempestates, et fregi turbines saevientes, ut caeteri securius navigarent. Sanctus Hieronimus, Commentarius In Jonam Prophetem

All your floods and waves have passed over me. The Septuagint has: All your heights and waves have passed over me. 1 That over Jonah the great waves of the sea passed and the wild storm thundered, there is no doubt. We seek how all these heights and floods and waves of God passed over the Saviour. 'Man's life is trial upon the earth,' 2 or as the Hebrew has it 'Man's life is warfare,' because here we fight that elsewhere we be crowned. And there is no one among men who is able to endure every temptation, apart from the one tested in everything, who was according to our likeness, without sin. Whence it is said to the Corinthians: 'Temptation will not come upon you, unless it is human. God is faithful and will not allow you to be tested beyond your strength, but He will give you an exit that you are able to endure.' 3 And because all persecutions and everything which happen cannot happen apart from the will of God, thus they are called the floods and waves of God, which did not crush Jesus, but passed through Him, only threatening shipwreck and not bearing Him away. Therefore every persecution and whirlwind by which the human race is troubled and which has beset small craft, over His head has thundered. He has endured the storm, and vanquished the the great wind, that others may sail more securely. 4 Saint Jerome, Commentary on Jonah 1 Jonah 2.4 2 Job 7.1 3 1 Cor 10.13 4 cf Mt 8.23-27