“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”
Who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort ourselves receive from God — consolation flows bidirectionally: God comforts us so that we might become conduits of that same comfort to others. The Greek peripereia (trouble/affliction) and parakaleo (comfort/exhort) create a cyclical theology where suffering becomes the prerequisite for authentic ministry.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:4
It is meet to enquire, first, why to the former Epistle he adds a second: and what can be his reason for thus beginning with the mercies and consolation of God. Why then does he add a second Epistle? Whereas in the first he had said, “I will come to you, and will know not the word of them which are puffed up, but the power;” 1 Corinthians 4:19 and again towards the end had promised the same in milder terms, thus, “I will come unto you when I shall have passed through…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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