2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;”
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all — the revaluation is dramatic: present affliction (thlipseis) is characterized as 'light' (elaphr) and 'momentary' (parautika) compared to eternal, weighty (hyperbole) glory (doxa). Suffering is not denied but scaled against eschatological weight.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 4:17
“For the light affliction,” he says, “which is for the moment, works more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.” Having closed the question by a reference to hope, (and, as he said in his Epistle to the Romans, “We are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope;” Romans 8:24 establishing the same point here also,) he sets side by side the things present with the things to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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