to be, with thanksgiving, ver. 1 5. — roD 0?oD, of God) not merely from God. God not only bestows power once for all, but He is always maintaining it [making it good, ensuring it to His people].
8. *Ev rravrJ 6\i{36/asvoi, while we are troubled in every respect [ on
every side]) So vii. 5, in every , namely, thing , and place ; comp. always at ver. 10. — OXipo/xevoi, while we are troubled) The four participles in this verse refer to the feelings of the mind ; the same number in the following ver. to outward occurrences, vii. 5, [ Without were fightings ; within were fears.] They are con- strued with we have; and in every member the first clause
proves, that the vessels are earthen , the latter points out the ex- cellence of the power. — ov orevo^upov/jjsvoij we are not [distressed] reduced to straits) a way of escape is never wanting. — d^opov/xivoi, we are perplexed) about the future ; as, we are troubled , refers to the present.
9. A/wxo/^svo/, persecuted) xarctficcWopsvoi, cast down , is some- thing more [worse] than persecution , viz., where flight is not open to one.
10. ndvrore, always) asi in the next verse differs from this word, cravrors, throughout the whole time ; asi, any time what- ever [at every time] : comp. Mark xv. 8. The words, bearing about , we are delivered , in this ver. and in ver. 11 agree. — rr\v vszpueiv, the dying) This is as it were the act, life the habit. — rou Kvp/ov, of the Lord) This name must be thrice supplied in this and the following verse,1 and advantageously softens in this first passage the mention of dying. It is called the dying of the Loi'd , and the genitive intimates communion, [joint participation of Christ and believers in mutual suffering] as i. 5. — ’bj <roD, of Jesus) Paul employs this name alone [without Xp/ffrov or Kvp/ov accom- panying it] more frequently in this whole passage, ver. 5, than is his wont elsewhere ; therefore here he seems peculiarly to have felt its sweetness. — c npupspovrsc , carrying about) in all lands. — /Va xa/', that also) Consolation here takes an increase. Just before [ver. 8, 9], we had, but , four times. — ev rip (Su^an ti/xuv (puvspojQy, in our body might be made manifest) might be made manifest in our mortal [dead] flesh , in the next verse. In the one passage
1 Comp, marginal note on ver. 6. — E. B.