Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
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Barnes' Notes
Blessed be God - This is the commencement properly of the Epistle, and it is the language of a heart that is full of joy, and that bursts forth with gratitude in view of mercy. It may have been…
Adam Clarke
Blessed be God - Let God have universal and eternal praise:
1. Because he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the gift of his endless love to man, Joh 1:16.
2. Because he is the Father of…
After the foregoing preface, the apostle begins with the narrative of God's goodness to him and his fellow-labourers in their manifold tribulations, which he speaks of by way of thanksgiving to God,…
The mutual interdependence of St Paul and the Corinthian Church
3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Two feelings rise at once in the Apostle's mind. The first is an…
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