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NASB | 2 Corinthians 4:12 So death works in us, but life in you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 4:12 So physical death is [actively] at work in us, but [spiritual] life [is actively at work] in you. |
Subject: How does death work in us? |
Bible Note: Hi kalos, Your response is absolutely correct, the entire context has to do with physical penalties for preaching. And why is it that he faced these dangers everyday? The dangers he encountered were a direct consequence from preaching the gospel? Which he did not have to choose; having a free will. His choice lead him to this time of physical threat and his choice, of saving his own neck or dying to self-preservation, was to die in Christ and take the abuse of physical threat for the kingdom. Thus, I see the physical torment and the more base desire to do God's will. If it were just physical, how could he die every day? (although the idea intended is clear). As you wrote, "Paul continually risked his life in self-sacrificing ministry.". Doesn't this mean dying to self? Is that a physical descision or a spiritual descision? "I endure so many sufferings and persecutions, that it may be said to be a daily dying. I am constantly in danger of my life; and my sufferings each day are equal to the pains of death."(Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible) "...he always bore in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus, and was continually delivered to death for Jesus' sake; death was always working in him, he expected it every day, and was ready for it; he did not count his life dear unto himself, but was very willing to lay it down for the sake of Christ and his Gospel..."(John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible) So, the point that was made to Mommapbs, was dying to self, to do the things that are necessary to further the gospel, either in physical peril and offering of our lives or self abasement. accepting your view also, terrib |
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