1 CORINTHIANS 15:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”
I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you, brothers and sisters, in Christ Jesus our Lord — Paul's mortality is constant (perisphoratón: being in the midst of death hourly). Yet this witness is credible precisely because he stakes his life on resurrection's truth.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:31
“Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?” “I protest by that glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.” See again whence he endeavors to establish the doctrine, from his own suffrage: or rather not from his only, but from that also of the other apostles. And this too is no small thing; that the teachers whom you produce were full of vehement conviction and signified the same not by words only, but also by very deeds. Therefore, you see, he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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