2 Corinthians 1:10 - Exposition

From so great a death. From a state of dejection and despair, which seemed to show death in all its power (see 2 Corinthians 4:10-12 ). And doth deliver. Perhaps a pious marginal gloss which has crept into the text of some manuscripts. We trust; rather, we have set our hope . That . This word is omitted in some good manuscripts, as also are the words, "and doth deliver." He will yet deliver us. This implies either that the perils alluded to were not yet absolutely at an end, or St. Paul s consciousness that many a peril of equal intensity lay before him in the future.