Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
which is but for a moment—"Our PRESENT light (burden of) affliction" (so the Greek; compare Matthew 11:30), [ALFORD]. Compare "now for a season . . . in heaviness" (I Peter 1:6). The contrast, however, between this and the "ETERNAL weight of glory" requires, I think, the translation, "Which is but for the present passing moment." So WAHL. "The lightness of affliction" (he does not express "burden" after "light"; the Greek is "the light of affliction") contrasts beautifully with the "weight of the glory."
worketh—rather, "worketh out."
a far more exceeding and—rather, "in a surpassing and still more surpassing manner" [ALFORD]; "more and more exceedingly" [ELLICOTT, TRENCH, and others]. Greek, "in excess and to excess." The glory exceeds beyond all measure the affliction.
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