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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:2

2. Grace be to you Doddridge says that this benediction occurs in eleven of Paul’s epistles. The apostle would scatter his benedictions wherever Christian Churches can be found. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:3

3. Father of mercies As if all mercies were the offspring of the divine heart. God of all comfort The Jews too strongly held that the afflicted were the objects of God’s hatred; but the apostle finds that God is the supreme consoler of the afflicted. Modern atheistic philosophy denies any proof of divine goodness in the creation. But whatever proof of divine wrath there is in the creation, Christianity finds an infinite mercy in redemption. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:4

4. Able to comfort The consolations St. Paul receives from God, he receives not for himself alone. They are gifts wherewith he is able to console and enrich others. The fulness of the generous heart overflows, nay, empties itself, in blessings upon its fellow-sufferers. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:5

5. Sufferings of Christ Not as some render, sufferings for Christ; but the same sufferings in kind as those of Christ; or rather, sufferings undergone by Christians in their oneness with Christ, so that they are his. By Christ For Christ makes consolation to abound to all who undergo his sufferings. The martyr for Christ has rejoiced and triumphed in the flame through Christ. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:6

6. For your St. Paul, in 2 Corinthians 1:4, says that being divinely consoled with that divine consolation he can console others; he now assures the Corinthians that those others whom he would console thus are themselves. Whether afflicted or comforted, that affliction or comfort shall redound to the blessing of his dear Corinthians. Which refers to consolation and salvation; for they are effectual in producing in the Corinthians a firm endurance of the same sufferings as... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:7

7. The Corinthian patience in the sufferings for Christ’s sake, and their maintenance of a firm confession of Christ in Corinth amid unpopularity and persecution, inspired a hope that was steadfast that they would be final partakers of an eternal consolation. St. Paul now opens the great topics of the epistle. The report brought by Titus in regard to the Corinthian temper on receiving his first epistle, incites him to a full dissertation upon read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:8

a. His affliction in Asia, and his purpose to visit them, 2 Corinthians 1:8-14 . 8. Have you ignorant St. Paul’s frequent phrase in introducing a new information. Romans 1:13; 1Co 10:1 ; 1 Corinthians 12:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:13, and other passages. Trouble What this trouble, or rather, affliction, even to despair of life, was, is variously decided by commentators. Some identify it with his danger at Ephesus in Demetrius’s riot; but in that affair he was clearly not allowed to... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:9

9. Sentence Well expressed by Alford: “We had in ourselves the response of death; that is, our answer within ourselves to the question ‘life or death?’ was ‘death.’ The Greek word may signify sentence or answer. being the answer given by a judge when his sentence or verdict upon the accused was asked. Raiseth the dead Esteeming his recovery as nearly a resurrection. And the greatness of the danger raised his thoughts from self to the Author of life. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:10

10. Doth deliver The danger and the deliverance were continuous. The nervous predisposition still hung over Paul, and his life was a constant deliverance from death. We may suggest as a strong proof of the real nature of Paul’s danger, his continued reserve in specifically naming it. Had it been a beast-fight, or a conspiracy, or an assault, or even “a weakness of the eyes,” he would have specified it; but here, as elsewhere, from its humiliating character it is covered under allusions and... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:11

11. Helping… by prayer for us It would seem that although, according to 2 Corinthians 1:8, the Corinthians knew nothing of this particular collapse, yet Paul’s general predisposition was known to them, and was the subject of intercession in his behalf. By the means That is, by the intercession of many persons in the Corinthian Church. Gift Restoration from the attack of disease. Says Doddridge, “Nothing is more reasonable than that mercies obtained by prayer should be owned by praise.” read more

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