2 Corinthians 13:4 - Exposition

For though. The "though" should be omitted. Through weakness; literally, out of weakness; i.e. as a result of that human weakness of our nature which he took upon him, and which rendered him liable to agony and death ( 2 Corinthians 8:9 ; Philippians 2:7 , Philippians 2:8 ; 1 Peter 3:18 ; Hebrews 2:10-18 ). But we shall live with him… toward you. This thought of participation alike in Christ's humiliation and his glory, alike in his weakness and his might, was very familiar to St. Paul ( 2 Corinthians 4:10-12 ; Ephesians 1:19 , Ephesians 1:20 ), Here, however, the following words," toward you," i.e. " with reference to you," show that the life of which he is thinking is the vigorous reestablishment of his spiritual authority in Christ over the Church of Corinth.