2 Corinthians 4:10 - Exposition

The dying of the Lord Jesus; literally, the putting to death (Vulgate, mortificatio ). This is even stronger than 2 Corinthians 1:5 . It is not only "the sufferings," but even "the dying," of Christ of which his true followers partake ( Romans 8:36 , "For thy sake are we killed all the day long"). St. Paul, who was "in deaths oft" ( 2 Corinthians 11:23 ), was thus being made conformable unto Christ's death ( Philippians 3:10 ). Philo, too, compares life to "the daily carrying about of a corpse," and the Cure d'Ars used to speak of his body as "ce cadavre." That the life also of Jesus, etc. The thought is exactly the same as in 2 Timothy 2:11 , "If we be dead with him, we shall also live with him."