2 CORINTHIANS 1:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
Now, following the logic of v13, Paul looks to the day of the Lord Jesus when mutual boasting will be vindicated before God — the eschatological court will confirm what faith now dimly grasps. Paul's reputation and the Corinthians' spiritual maturity are bound together in a common hope.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:14
“As also ye did acknowledge us in part.” For your knowledge of us, he says, is not from hearsay but from actual experience. The words “in part” he added from humility. For this is his wont, when necessity constrains him to say any highsounding thing, (for he never does so otherwise,) as desiring quickly to repress again the elation arising from what he had said. “And I hope you will acknowledge even to the end.” Do you see again how from the past he draws pledges for the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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