...as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. For we would not, 8 brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came...strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life : but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, 9 that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God...

...shall ye he also of the consolation. 8 For we would not, hrethren, have you ignorant of our trouhle which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, ahove strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves,...

...Sometimes his sufferings were so extreme that his nature seemed just ready to faint under them : 2 Cor. i. 8. " For we would not brethren have you ignorant of...strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life." And at last the apostle was deprived of his life. He suffered a violent death at Rome under the hand...

...Sometimes his sufferings were so extreme that his nature seemed just ready to faint under them .2 Cor. i. 8. " For we would not brethren have you ignorant of...strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life." And at last the apostle was deprived of his life. He suffered a violent death at Rome under the hand...

...strong consolation." Observe the manner, in which the great apostle expresses himself upon this point; " We would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble,...strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life. We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in , ' God which...

...alludes, when he says, " If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus V And again, " We would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble,...strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life V No account of St Paul's having been actually delivered to wild beasts in the theatre at Ephesus,...

...Sometimes his sufferings were so extreme that his nature seemed just ready to faint under them : 2 Cor. i. 8. " For we would not brethren have you ignorant of...which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of meafure above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life." And at last the apostle was deprived...

...the passage, to show that it is to be referred to the tumult at Ephesus : ' AVe would not, Uethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia.' And there is nothing more ; no mention of Demetrius, of the seizure of St Paul's friends, of the interference...

...justenough of particularity in the passage to show that it is to be referred to the tumult at Ephesiis: " We would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia. And there is, nothing more ; no mention of Demetrius, of the seizure of St. Paul's friends, of the...

...depend. Your experience under these circumstances may be somewhat similar to that of Paul when he said, " We were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life ; but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God which...