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first-fruits of Achaia, and that | salute you. Aquila and Pris

they have addicted themselves to the service of the saints, 16 that ye also submit yourselves to such, and to every one who helpeth with me and laboureth. 17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for what remained to be done on your part, they have supplied; 18 for they have refreshed my spirit, and yours: acknowledge, therefore, such persons.

19 The churches of Asia

cilla salute you much in the Lord; and the church also that assembleth in their house. 20 All the brethren salute you. Sa lute one another with a holy kiss.

21 THE salutation by the hand of me Paul. 22 If any one love not the Lord [Jesus Christ], let him be separated from you. Our Lord cometh. 23 The favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 24 My love* be with you all in Christ Jesus. [Amen.]

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE
CORINTHIANS.

CHAP. I.

which we ourselves are com 1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus forted of God: 5 for as the Christ, by the will of God, and sufferings of Christ abound in Timothy our brother, to the us, so our comfort also aboundchurch of God which is in Co-eth through Christ. 6 But wherinth, and to all the saints who are in all Achaia: 2 favour be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with

ther we be afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whe ther we be comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: 7 (and our hope concerning you is stedfast;) since we know, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so are ye also of the comfort.

8 For, brethren, we would not have you ignorant of our

"The Alex. MS. omits pov my, and Le Clerc thinks that Lov my, may have been writ ten in mistake for Sau, (which is a contraction for Sou) of God, so that the true reading is "The love of God be with you all in Christ Jesus." Compare 2 Cor. xiii. 14." See Im. Ver. note.

by you on my way towards Judea. 17 When therefore I thus purposed, did I use any lightness? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no? †

ffliction which befel [us] in Asia; that we were exceedingly ressed above our strength, so hat we despaired even of life: but we had the sentence of eath in ourselves, that we hould not trust in ourselves, ut in God who raiseth the ead: 10 who delivered us 18 But as God is faithful, our om so great a death, and doth | preaching to you was not yes deliver us; in whom we hope hat he will yet deliver us; 11 ou likewise helping, together with others, by prayer for us; hat, because of the benefit estowed on us by means of many persons, thanks may be given for us by many.

12 For this is our boasting,* he testimony of our conscience; hat, in simplicity and sincerity towards God, (not with carnal wisdom, but by the favour of God,) we have behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you. 13 For we do not write different things to you, but only what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope that ye will acknowledge even] to the end: 14 as ye have acknowledged us also as to part of you; for we are your boasting, as ye also will be ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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and no. 19 For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, (even by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy,) was not yes, and no, but in him was yes: 20 (for all the promises of God are, in him, the yes, and, in him, the amen,) to the glory of God through us. 21 But he who establisheth us, together with you, in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God: 22 who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts.

23 Moreover I call upon God as a witness against my soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet to Corinth: 24 (not that we have dominion over your faith,

but are fellow

helpers of your joy; for in faith ye stand.)

CH. II. 1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come to you again in grief. I2 For if I grieve you, who maketh me glad, but he who is grieved by me? 3 And I wrote this matter [to you], lest, when I came, I should have grief from those, on whose account I ought to rejoice; having con

15 AND in this confidence, was formerly desirous of coming to you, (that ye might receive a second benefit ;) 16 and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and to be conducted

* See 1 Cor. xv. 31, and the note there.

+ Michaelis conjectures that the true reading is το ναι, ου, και το ου, ναι, should be no, and my no, yes, Marsh's Michaelis, vol. ii. p. 408.

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umph in Christ, and maketh
manifest the odour of the know-
ledge of himself through us, in
every place. 15 (For we are a
sweet odourt of Christ
God, among those who are sav-
ed, and among those who are
lost: 16 to the one we are the
odour of death unto death; and
to the other, the odour of life
unto life: and who is sufficient
for these things?) 17 For we
are not as many, who corrupt
the word of God: but, as of
sincerity, as of God, as in the
presence of God, we speak con-
cerning Christ.

fidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction, and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not merely that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have most abundantly for you. 5 BUT if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part; that I may not charge you all. 6 Sufficient to such an one is that rebuke, which was given by many: 7 so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive him, and to comfort him; lest such an one should be swallowed up CH. II. 1 Must we begin by excessive grief. 8 Where- again to recommend ourselves? fore I beseech you to confirm or need we, as some, letters of your love towards him. 9 For recommendation to you, or letto this end also I wrote, that Iters [of recommendation] from might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 10 But to whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, for your sakes I have done it, in the person of Christ; 11 lest the adversary should gain advan-not on tables of stone, but on tage over us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 NOW when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but I bade them farewel, and went thence into Macedonia.

you? 2 Ye are our letter of recommendation, written in the hearts of us all, known and read by all men: 3 since ye are manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ, ministered by us; written not with ink, but by the spirit of the living God;

the fleshy tables of the heart.

4 Now we have this kind of self-confidence through Christ towards God: 5 not because we are sufficient of ourselves to reason any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God: 6 who hath even made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, 14 BUT thanks be to God, but of the spirit: for the letter who always causeth us to tri-killeth, but the spirit giveth

* who leadeth us in triumph, Wakefield.

† smell, Newcome.

that adulterate, N. "an allusion to vintners, who adulterate pure wine with unwholesome mixtures." Im. Ver. note.

is freedom.) 18 For we all, with unveiled face, reflecting as mirrors the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord of the

spirit.*

ife. 7 But if the ministry of leath, engraven in letters [on] stones, was glorious, so that he sons of Israel could not tedfastly behold the face of Moses, in consequence of the glory of his countenance, which Flory was to be done away; 8 CH. IV. 1 WHEREFORE havnow shall not the ministry of ing this ministry, according as he spirit be rather glorious? we have received mercy, we 9 For if the ministry of con- faint not; 2 but have commandHemnation was glorious, much ed away the hidden things of more doth the ministry of justi- shame, not walking in craftiication abound in glory. 10 For ness, nor acting deceitfully even that which was glorified with the word of God; but, vas not glorified in this re- by manifestation of the truth, spect, by reason of the excelling recommending ourselves to glory. 11 For if that which is every man's conscience, in the bolished, is abolished by glory, sight of God. 3 But if our gosmuch more that which remain-pel also be veiled, it is veileth, remaineth in glory. ed to those who are lost;† 12 Having therefore such 4 to those unbelievers, whose hope, we use much plainness minds the god of this age hath of speech; 13 and not as Mo-blinded; so that the lustre of ses, who put a veil upon his face; that the sons of Israel might not steadfastly behold the end of that which is now abolished. 14 (Yet their minds are blinded: for until this day he same veil remaineth, in the reading of the old covenant; 6 For God, who commanded it not being discovered that it the light to shine out of darkis abolished in Christ; 15 but ness, hath shone in our hearts, even to this day, when Moses to give the lustre of his glorious is read, the veil is upon their knowledge, in the face of Jesus heart: 16 nevertheless, when it | Christ. shall turn to the Lord, the veil will be taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the spirit: and where he spirit of the Lord is, [there]

the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, doth not enlighten them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and are ourselves your servants on account of Jesus.

7 BUT we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8 We

*So Macknight. "The meaning of this passage, stripped of the metaphor, is, We apostles, the ministers of the covenant of the Spirit, do not impart to the world a veiled or dark knowledge of that covenant, as Moses gave the Israelites an obscure knowledge of the covenant of the etter. But we all, having a complete knowledge of the covenant of the Spirit by inspiration from Christ, preach it every where in the plainest manner. So that in diffusing the knowledge of God and religion through the world, we are the images or representatives of Christ, by the power of an abiding inspiration from him who is the Lord, or author of the covenant of the Spirit." See Macknight in loco.

+"to them who destroy themselves." Ibid.

are every way afflicted, but not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 always bearing about in our body the death of Jesus; that the life, also, of Jesus, may be made manifest in our body.

11 For we, who are alive, are continually exposed to death for the sake of Jesus; that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So that death worketh in us, but life in you. 13 Yet having the same spirit of faith, as it is written," I believed, and therefore I have spoken," we also believe, and therefore speak; 14 knowing, that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, will raise up us also by Jesus, and will present us together with you.

15 For all our sufferings are for your sakes; that the favour which hath abounded to many, may, through the thanksgiving of many, overflow to the glory of God. 16 For which cause, we faint not; but, even though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our present light affliction worketh for us an excessively exceeding aionian weight of glory;* 18 for we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a short time, but the things which are not seen are aionian. CH. V. 1 For we know that,

if our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, -we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, aionian, in the heavens. 2 For we groan in this tabernacle, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven: 3 since we shall indeed be found clothed upon, and not naked. 4 For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon; that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

5 Now he who hath prepared us for this purpose, is God; who hath [also] given us the earnest of the spirit. 6 Wherefore we are always of good courage, and know that, while we are present in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 we are of good courage, I say, and desirous rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord: 9 wherefore we earnestly strive also, that, whether present or absent, we may be well-pleasing to him.

10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgmentseat of Christ; that every one may receive the things in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

11 KNOWING therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest in your

* Gr. καθ' ὑπερβολην εἰς ὑπερβολην αιώνιον. Now if aionian be strictly infinite or endless, how can any thing exceed it, even by a rhetorical figure, so as to be hyperbole upon hyperbole above or beyond it?

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