...nigh. (y) All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. (z) We have the.sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead. (a) Lean not unto thine own understanding. He that trusteth iu his own heart is a fool. (3) The rich...

...enough of particularity in the passage, to show that it is to be referred to the tumult at Ephesus ; " 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 frit nds, of the...

...of Paul was so very remarkable, that he mentions it as a miraculous deliverance : We had, says he, the sentence of death, in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raised the dead, who delivered us from so great a death. A nd in another place he tells us, " he...

...greatest extremity ; even from the grave and death itself. — « For we would not, " brethren, says he, have you ignorant of our trouble, " which came to...Asia, that we were pressed " out of measure, above our strength, insomuch, " that we despaired even of life ; — but we had the " sentence of death in...

...man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. Hear, too, how the Apostle speaks, in the ninth verse : We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we...trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead. And he speaks of being pressed out of measure — almost driven from hope : insomuch that he despaired...

...cursed with everlasting existence, notwithstanding that. Second Epistle to the Corinthians, civ 9. " But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that...in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead." The apostle here speaks of raising the dead as equivalent to deliverance, whilst, if a vast majority...

...for your consolation and salvation". For we would not have you ignorant of our trouble, in so much that we despaired even of life. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should trust in God who raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and in whom we trust that...

...i. 8, 9, 10. " We were pressed out of measure, abostrength, 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 that raiseth the dead; who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver ; in whom we trust...

...leave of the disciples, he departed to Macedonia. To this tie probably alludes in 2 Cor. i. 8, 9. : " For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our...which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life ; but we had the sentence of death in ourselves,...

...enough of particularity in the passage to show that it is to be referred to the tumult at Ephesus : "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 interference...