2 Corinthians 4:8 (WEB)
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
Fathers and councils · 3
Tertullian
“…we are harassed by persecutions, but not forsaken; it is such that we are cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in our body the dying of Christ.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 8.
Read the whole comment“Well, then, if it be in these very earthen vessels that he tells us we have to endure so great sufferings, in which we bear about with us the very dying of God, (Marcion’s) god is really ungrateful and unjust, if he does not mean to restore this same substance of…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 8–12.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Only let us preserve free-will and love: “troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 8, 9.
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