2 CORINTHIANS 13:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.”
We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored — the *paradox continues*: apostolic *astheneia*, weakness, is *joy* (*chairō*) when the *community* is *dynamis*, strong. Paul's *deēsis*, prayer, is for *katartisis*, complete restoration/healing, of the Corinthians. *Individual* apostolic vindication is *irrelevant* compared to *corporate* spiritual maturity.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 13:9
“Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate. For we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth. For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong. For this also we pray for even your perfecting.” What can be equal to this soul? He was despised, he was spit upon, he was ridiculed, he was mocked, as mean, as contemptible, as a braggart, as boastful in his words but in…
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