2 Corinthians 4:17 — King James Version← Study notes
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;”
2 Corinthians 4:17 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 2 Corinthians 4:1716 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
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…
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