Zanchi: "For our lives... is like a wheel...."

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Zanchi on Philippians 4:12 ("I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound..."):

"For our lives—or our status in the world—is like a wheel, on which we go around, at times on the lowest part and at times on the highest, with divine providence ruling all. Now we excel all others in honor, power, and riches; now we are humbled below everyone. Now we have large and well laid tables; now we cannot even eat bread. In short, sometimes we abound in all things; sometimes we are reduced to utter destitution. But the Christian who has been given the virtue of contentment learns to adapt himself to all these things everywhere and at all times."

-Commentary on Philippians, 637.