But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul was expecting death, but things had not come to that point. In the natural course of events, he should have died, but God did not allow that to happen in order that Paul would learn not to trust in himself but in God.
