tribulation
noun
- period of bad luck
- act or process of experiencing or causing to experience great troubles
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌtɹɪbjʊˈleɪ̯ʃən/ / /ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/
name
Etymology: Proprialization from tribulation.
- (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin trībulātiō (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from Latin tribulāre (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from trībulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from terēre (“to rub”); see trite.
- Any adversity; a trying period or event.
“What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that tribulation to strengthen him was far better for him, than to take that tribulation from him?”
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer”