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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:9

Persecuted, but not forsaken - Διωκομενοι, αλλ ' ουκ εγκαταλειπομενοι . The διωκομενοι , pursued, is peculiar to the δρομος , or race, when one being foremost others pursue, and get up close after him, endeavoring to outstrip him, but cannot succeed: this is the meaning of ουκ εγκαταλειπομενοι , not outstripped, or outgone, as the word implies. So in Plutarch: τους απολειφθεντας ου στεφανουσι , they do not crown them that are distanced or left behind. So says the apostle, 1... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:10

Always bearing about in the body, etc. - Being every moment in danger of losing our lives in the cause of truth, as Jesus Christ was. We, in a word, bear his cross, and are ready to offer up our lives for him. There is probably an allusion here to the marks, wounds, and bruises which the contenders in those games got, and continued to carry throughout life. That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest - That in our preservation, the success of our ministry, and the miracles we... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:11

For we which live - And yet, although we are preserved alive, we are in such continual dangers that we carry our life in our hands, and are constantly in the spirit of sacrifice. But the life - the preserving power, of Christ is manifest in our continual support. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:12

Death worketh in us, etc. - We apostles are in continual danger, and live a dying life; while you who have received this Gospel from us are in no danger. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:7

Verse 7 7.But we have this treasure. Those that heard Paul glorying in such a magnificent strain as to the excellence of his ministry, and beheld, on the other hand, his person, contemptible and abject in the eyes of the world, might be apt to think that he was a silly and ridiculous person, and might look upon his boasting as childish, while forming their estimate of him from the meanness of his person. (464) The wicked, more particularly, caught hold of this pretext, when they wished to bring... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

Verse 8 8.While we are pressed on every side. This is added by way of explanation, for he shows, that his abject condition is so far from detracting from the glory of God, that it is the occasion of advancing it. “We are reduced,” says he, “to straits, but the Lord at length opens up for us an outlet; (467) we are oppressed with poverty, but the Lord affords us help. Many enemies are in arms against us, but under God’s protection we are safe. In fine, though we are brought low, so that it might... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:10

Verse 10 10.The mortification of Jesus (470) He says more than he had done previously, for he shows, that the very thing that the false apostles used as a pretext for despising the gospel, was so far from bringing any degree of contempt upon the gospel, that it tended even to render it glorious. For he employs the expression — the mortification of Jesus Christ — to denote everything that rendered him contemptible in the eyes of the world, with the view of preparing him for participating in a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:12

Verse 12 12.Hence death indeed. This is said ironically, because it was unseemly that the Corinthians should live happily, and in accordance with their desire, and that they should, free from anxiety, take their ease, while in the mean time Paul was struggling with incessant hardships. (477) Such an allotment would certainly have been exceedingly unreasonable. It was also necessary that the folly of the Corinthians should be reproved, inasmuch as they contrived to themselves a Christianity... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:7

In earthen vessels. The glorious light which we have to show to the world is, like Gideon's torches, carried in earthen pitchers. The word skenos, vessel, is used in Mark 11:16 , and "vessels of earthenware" in Revelation 2:27 . St. Paul, in Acts 9:15 , is called "a vessel of election," whence Dante calls him lo vas d' elezione . Man can never be more than an earthen vessel, being frail and humble, and the metaphor specially suits an apostle of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 2:3-5 ;... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:7

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