Of course, there is a real threat to this privacy I speak of, and that would be our own sinful nature, which corrodes the outer edges of it — of that ‘temple’ where the indwelling spirit is to be found, and infiltrates it, and weakens it. But this other threat, this secondary threat that is not really a threat but a lot of noise and hand-waving and theatrics (and much, I imagine, like a crude anticipation of the din of Pandemonium) still will cause us trouble, which in scriptural language we recognize, I think, as ‘tribulation’.