Growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
The Jewish background to an odd passage
One of Paul’s more unusual uses of the Old Testament is found in his warning to the believers in Corinth not to fall into the same complacency as some of the Israelites had on the Exodus. Continue reading “The rock that followed them”
“…we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.”
Paul begins his second letter to the Corinthians by mentioning the trials he’d been suffering. He links a few ideas up by the repeated use of some keywords in 2 Cor 1:3-11:
Paul wasn’t hiding the fact that he’d been suffering; instead he was using his experience to make a point – God had consoled Paul in his suffering, and because of that Paul was now able to console others in the same position. Continue reading “Paul’s despair and consolation”
