Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

Of which Corinth was at that time the capital.

This inward comfort prepares us to endure suffering. P. " which is effectual in the enduring." St. Chrysostom remarks that the text is not in the active voice, "to show that with their own good dispositions, grace also, working in them, contributed much."

There is great variety in the readings of the manuscripts, arising probably from the similitude of the phrases. The Vulgate appears to combine two inter- pretations of one phrase. G. P. has " And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same suffer- ings, which we also suffer ; or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation."

G. P. " unto the glory of God by us." The Alexandrian and Vatican manu- scripts have the Vulgate reading. St. Chrysostom observes: "He fulfils His promises by us, that is, by favours bestowed on us to His own glory." !■* Makes us firm and steadfast.