Gerhard and Walther

Truly repentant people must humbly and completely leave it to God, if, when, and in what manner He might avert and mitigate temporal misfortunes.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis II:164.

For the sake of our sins, He once sighed, groaned, and struggled as One who had been conquered by the poisonous sting of the hellish snake in His heel. Today, however, we see Him triumphant while Satan writhes, powerless, his head crushed under the foot of the almighty Victor. For the sake of our sins, having once wrestled with death and having been swallowed up as death’s prey with open vengeance, He is now clothed with a glorious body and the sting of death has been broken.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, pp. 366, 367.