2 Corinthians 1:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 Our hope for you is firm, for we know that as you share in the sufferings, you also share in the encouragement.[a]
8 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction that came to us in the province of Asia;[b] we were utterly weighed down beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.(A) 9 Indeed, we had accepted within ourselves the sentence of death,[c] that we might trust not in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.(B)
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- 1:7 You also share in the encouragement: the eschatological reversal of affliction and encouragement that Christians expect (cf. Mt 5:4; Lk 6:24) permits some present experience of reversal in the Corinthians’ case, as in Paul’s.
- 1:8 Asia: a Roman province in western Asia Minor, the capital of which was Ephesus.
- 1:9–10 The sentence of death: it is unclear whether Paul is alluding to a physical illness or to an external threat to life. The result of the situation was to produce an attitude of faith in God alone. God who raises the dead: rescue is the constant pattern of God’s activity; his final act of encouragement is the resurrection.
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