Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
us—idiomatic for me (I Thessalonians 2:18).
that we may . . . comfort them which are in any trouble—Translate, as the Greek is the same as before, "tribulation." The apostle lived, not to himself, but to the Church; so, whatever graces God conferred on him, he considered granted not for himself alone, but that he might have the greater ability to help others [CALVIN]. So participation in all the afflictions of man peculiarly qualified Jesus to be man's comforter in all his various afflictions (Isaiah 50:4-6; Hebrews 4:15).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Corinthians 1:4:
Exodus 20:19
Psalms 119:75-78
2 Corinthians 1:3
2 Corinthians 1:6
2 Corinthians 7:4
1 Thessalonians 2:3
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