“For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.”
For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ — Paul establishes the participatory logic of Christian suffering: we enter into Christ's sufferings (koinonia tōn pathēmatōn), which simultaneously opens us to abundant consolation. This is not masochism but identification: our trials align us with Christ's redemptive suffering and thereby with his triumph.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:5
But not for this reason only, but also because they were amended by the former; for him that had committed fornication whom before they applauded and were puffed up about, they had cut off and separated altogether. And this he shows where he says, “But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all. Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many.” 2 Corinthians 2:5-6 And as he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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