“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;”
Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart — the 'therefore' connects to 3:17-18: because we are being transformed by the Spirit, we persist in ministry. God's mercy (eleos) supplies perseverance when circumstances suggest failure.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 4:1
Seeing he had uttered great things and had set himself and all the faithful before Moses, aware of the height and greatness of what he had said, observe how he moderates his tone again. For it was necessary on account of the false Apostles to exalt his hearers also, and again to calm down that swelling; yet not to do it away, since this would be a trifler's part. Wherefore he manages this in another manner, by showing that not of their own merits was it, but all of the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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