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Ameet148 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Can't understand this
The part that I don't understand(at the end of paragraph):
"the complexion of my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions."
Q.How come "afflictions" be blessed?
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The whole paragraph is like this:
And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the
mentioned happiness of my past life to His kind providence, which lead me to the means I
used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not
presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that
happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have
done; the complexion of my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is
to bless to us even our afflictions.
Source:Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"the complexion of my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions."
Q.How come "afflictions" be blessed?
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The whole paragraph is like this:
And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the
mentioned happiness of my past life to His kind providence, which lead me to the means I
used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not
presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that
happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have
done; the complexion of my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is
to bless to us even our afflictions.
Source:Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Top answer
There seems to be a transcription error. g. with some illness or trouble)".
- There seems to be a transcription error.
- g.
- with some illness or trouble)".
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There seems to be a transcription error. The original (at least, the version I found on Google Books) reads "in whose power it is to bless to us, even in our afflictions", which I suppose means "even when we are afflicted (e.g. with some illness or trouble)".
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