“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.
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