2 Corinthians 4:13 - Exposition

We ; rather, But we . The same spirit of faith. The spirit manifested by the psalmist in the quotation which follows. It is from Psalms 116:10 , a psalm which corresponded with St. Paul's mood because it was written in trouble sustained by faith. And this faith inspires him with the conviction that, after "the body of this death," and after this death in life, there should begin for him also the life in death. St. Paul says nothing as to the authorship of the psalm, which probably belongs to a period far later than that of David. The words are from the LXX ., and seem fairly to represent the disputed sense of the original.