Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xx Pg 3.1
Anf-03 v.x.xiii Pg 10
2 Cor. iv. 8.
“But though,” says he, “our outward man perisheth”—the flesh doubtless, by the violence of persecutions—“yet the inward man is renewed day by day”—the soul, doubtless, by hope in the promises. “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal”—he is speaking of troubles; “but the things which are not seen are eternal”—he is promising rewards. But writing in bonds to the Thessalonians,8314 8314
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 53
2 Cor. iv. 8–12.
in which we bear about with us the very dying of God,5730 5730 Oehler, after Fr. Junius, defends the reading “mortificationem dei,” instead of Domini, in reference to Marcion, who seems to have so corrupted the reading.
(Marcion’s) god is really ungrateful and unjust, if he does not mean to restore this same substance of ours at the resurrection, wherein so much has been endured in loyalty to him, in which Christ’s very death is borne about, wherein too the excellency of his power is treasured.5731 5731
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 4
VERSE (8) - 2Co 1:8-10; 6:4; 7:5; 11:23-30
