2 CORINTHIANS 2:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”
But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere — thriambeuo (led in triumph) evokes Roman military pageantry where conquered enemies were paraded before the victor. But Paul inverts the image: Christians are captives of Christ, yet this captivity is triumph, not shame. Redemption redefines conquest.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 2:14
“But thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest through us the savor of His knowledge in every place.” For that he may not seem as though in sorrow to be lamenting these things, he sends up thanks to God. Now what he says is this: 'Every where is trouble, every where straitness. I came into Asia, I was burdened beyond strength. I came to Troas, I found not the brother. I came not to you; this too bred in me no slight, yea rather,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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