Ver. 14.-Whioh raised up the Lord 1ellll.l Ver. 17,-l'or our light affliction, which ii (see 1 Cor. vi. 14). Shall raise up 118 also. but for a moment; liternlly,/or the imme- The thought is again expressed in Rom. viii diate lightnu/J of our ajJ/iction. Worketh for 11. Ae he is here alluding mainly to the us . . Is bringing a.bout for us, with nil the resurrection from the· dead, it is clear that i?1mee.surable force or a natural and progree- ho contemplated the possibility of dying s1v~ lnw. A far mo~e exoeccling and etemal before Christ's second coming (comp. 1 These. weight of glory; htcrally, in excus unto •iv. 15). , By J'esus, The reading supported ezceBB. For the phrase, " to excess "-cha- by neorly e.11 the beet manuscripts is "u,i!h racteristic, like other emotional expressions, Jesus" (N, B, C, D, E, F, G), which per- of this group of Epistles-see eh. i. 8; Gal. 1,ope oppee.red unsuitable to the copyiefs. i. 13. 'l'he word "eternal" is in o.ntithcsis Dut Christie.ns'e.re "risen with Christ" here to the "for a moment.'' The "weight" is (Col ii. 12; iii. 1); e.n.d in another sense augge,1ted by the "lightness," and possibly ,e.lso we rise Uli.th him, becnuse the Church nlso by the fnct tho.t iu Hebrew the word is "the body of Christ.. (1 .Cor. xv. 23). for "glory" nlee meo.ne "weight." The Shall present us with you. So St. Jude genera.I contrast is found also in Matt. v.12; speaks of "Goil our Saviour•• e.s able "to I Pet. v. 10; Heh. xii. 10; Rom. viii. 18. present us" before the presence of his glory The frequent resemblo.nces between this (Jude 24, 25). • Epistle and that to the Rou1e.ns nre nnluml Ver. 15.-.&ll things are for your eakea. whon we remember that they were wrillun St. Paul has already implied thot hie lifo is within a·few months or eoch other. not his own (eh. i. 6; comp. 1 Cor. iii. 22, Ver. 18.-While we look not at the thinga 23), and he reoure to the enme thought in whioh are seen. 'l'he Greek suggests more Col. i. 24, and repeats once again towards of a reason, "Sioco we ore not g"ziug o.t the close of his life: "I endure all things for things vidible" (see oh. v. 7). Things which the elect's sakes" (2 Tim. ii. 10). Kight are not HOD. Tho negative is the ml>jectire ... redound. The verb feriueuo may mean ne:,"l\livo. It expresses uot only tho ruct either "I nbonnd " or " make to a.bound " thnt now these things ore not seen, but tho.t as in eh. ix. 8 and Eph. i. 8. Here there is it is their natul'e to be unseen by the bodily e. similar tbonght to that expressed in eh. i. eyes. Temporal. Tho.t is, tempornry, tmn• 11, and the best rendering is, In ordl!1' that s1tory, phanto.smo.l, a po.ssing world; for the Dioine /orour, bei11g multiplied through which reo.aon we do not fix our gnze or our tl,e greatet' n11nlber (of those who she.re in it), nim upoo it. Dut tho things whioh are not may make the thanksgirring (whioh it excites) seen a.re eternnl. 'l'he chmso is importnnt, abound to t.he honour of God. o.s showing tho.t etarnity is not 1\ mero ox- Vore. 16-18.-The Chrie!ian minisur is tousion of time, but a. roudilion qunlitnlivoly up1,eld by hope. difforeut from time. 'fho "thinis• olcnrnl" Ver. 16.-Therefore. Knowlog tho.t our exist 1\8 much now a.a they will orcr do. do.ily deo.th ia the pathway to oteruo.l lifo We nro na much living in eternity now a.a (rnr. 1-l). We faint 11.ot (aoa ver. 1). we evor eho.11 be. The only difl'oronce will Though ; ro.ther, e~m i/. Our outward man. be tho.t we sho.ll then seo him who is now Our lire in itll humon and corporeal condi• unseen, and roslizo the tl,in:,:e which now tioo11. The award 0111n. Namely, ouz rnorul a.re only visible to the ove of fo.ith. 'J'hie is nod s11iritual being, that" now mo.n which ouo of the po.sso.gos of !:It. Po.ul which fluds is renewed in knowledge after the imago of a. oloso po.rullel in Soueoo. (' Ep.,' 5D). "I11- him that oreo.ted him" (Col. iii. 10). II 11i,ibilia non decipiunt" wns, ns Diehop renewed; litoro.lly, i, being reneiced; f.o. by Wordsworth tells us, the inacripliou put o.t foith nnd hope. Day by day, 'fho Greek the oud of hie gcmlon o.rcndo by Dr. Youug, phrnso is not olnaAical, but is a romiuisceoce the poet. of tho Iloh1'Bw. •
HOMlLE'l'ICS. Vera. 1, 2.-The character and work of a true minister of Oln-ist. "'l'horefore seeing we have this ministry," etc. 'l'hese words prcsont to us a truo mi11istor of Chri~t as he ie in himself and in his labours, that is, his ehnro.cter and work. I. HIB cBABACJTEB, It is here suggested that his chnrncter is murkcd by thrco ihings. 1. ]ta etrength. "'l'herefora seeing we ho.ve this miniijtry, B.:! we hnvc received mercy, we faillt not." Having in mercy such o. gospel WI this to pr1•11ch, we nre not disheartened. "Wo faint not;" on the contro.ry, wo are oourugcous. '!'he oharncter of every minister of Christ should bo marked by strength-strength of con• viction, strength of principle. 2. ltapul'ity. "Dut lmvo ronouncoJ. the hi<ldcn thinga 92 THE SECOND EPISTLE 1'0 THE CORINTHIANS. [clt. rv. 1-18.