I protest by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
I die daily. I.e, I expose myself every day to danger of death, on behalf of the Gospel and the conversion of the Gentiles.
By your rejoicing. That Isaiah , I die daily for the sake of the glory which awaits you in heaven, in order that I may win it for you; or, better still, as your father and Apostle, I swear, and call God to witness, by your glory, i.e, by the glorying with which I glory over you as my children in Christ, that I die daily, and expose myself to death in hope of the resurrection. Hence S. Augustine ( Ephesians 89) proves the lawfulness of oaths. [Cornelius Lapide follows the Latin Version, which gives glory where the A. V. has rejoicing.]
Which I have in Christ. This Isaiah , according to Anselm, the future glory which, in reliance on Christ, I hope that you will have, or, better, the glory or glorying which I have, i.e, with which I glory in Christ; for I glory that by the merits of Christ I have obtained it. Gagneius and Photius explain the phrase differently, and...
Or if his call should come to him before, his faith shall not be without reward, seeing it was prepared for martyrdom; without loss of time, the reward is rendered by the judgment of God. In persecution, the warfare,-in peace, the purity of conscience, is crowned.
By your glory. He seems, especially by the Greek text, to call God to witness, and to protest by the reasons he has to glory or boast in their conversion, that his life is as it were a continual death. Other expound it, I die daily for your glory; or, that I may have reason to glory for the progress of the gospel. (Witham)
