2 CORINTHIANS 1:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.”
As you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many — intercessory prayer forms an apostolic network. The Corinthians' prayers are not peripheral but constitutive of Paul's preservation. Thanksgiving will be distributed among the many, preventing any single intercessor from assuming salvific credit.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:11
“Who delivered us out of so great deaths. ” He said not, “from so great dangers,” at once showing the insupportable severity of the trials, and confirming the doctrine I have mentioned. For whereas the Resurrection was a thing future, he shows that it happens every day: for when [God] lifts up again a man who is despaired of and has been brought to the very gates of Hades, He shows none other thing than a resurrection, snatching out of the very jaws of death him that had…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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