...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...

...his peril was eminent, peculiarly terrible, and, humanly speaking, unavoidable. His own words are, we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life §. Farther particulars cannot now be discovered, excepting one, which he adds, of small consequence...

...commandments. God, who is faithful, will not suffer jou to be tempted above that ye are able.— 1 Cor. x. 13. We were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life. — 2 Cor. i. 8. THE ahility in the first of these passages, and the strength in the last, are far...

...shall ye he also oi" the consolation. 8 For we would not, hrethren, have you igoorant of our trouhle which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, ahove strength, insomuch that we despaired even of l,fe : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves,...

...consolation.' Observe the manner, in which the great apostle expresses himself upon this point—' We would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble,...strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life. We had the seni tence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which...

...die daily," "In deaths oft." Yet deaths from which He revived, and wasdelivered, as in 2 Cor. i. 9: "We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we...God which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us." Now, having thrown...

...that the apostle here rests upon : as also he shews that it was his course to do, 2 Cor. i. 9, 10. ' But 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 us, and whom we trust,...

...thou hast said, and the praise and the glory shall be thine, now, henceforth, and for ever. Amen." " We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves." A third point of view in which the subject may be regarded, and which appears to us to be in more strict...

...in those tribulations which he endured in Asia: of which he writes thus, 2 Cor. i. 8 — 11, " For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came upon us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even...

...in those tribulations which he endured in Asia: of which he writes thus, 2 Cor. i. 8 — 11, " For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came upon us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even...