2 Corinthians 1:10
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What does 2 Corinthians 1:10 mean?
Who delivered us from so great a death
Accordingly, being enabled to trust in God, when all human hope
and helps failed, to believe in hope against hope, then the Lord
appeared for them, and delivered them from this heavy affliction;
which, because by reason of it they were not only in danger of
death, and threatened with, but were even under the sentence of
it, is therefore called a death, and so great an one, see (
2
Corinthians 11:23 ) . The apostle expresses the continuance
of the mercy,
and doth deliver;
which shows that they were still exposed to deaths and dangers,
but were wonderfully preserved by the power of God, which gave
great encouragement to them to hope and believe that God would
still preserve them for further usefulness. The Alexandrian copy
leaves out this clause, and so does the Syriac version.
In whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
all the three tenses, past, present, and future, are mentioned,
which shows that an abiding sense of past and present
deliverances serves greatly to animate faith in expectation of
future ones.
