1 Corinthians 2:3-5 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.… St. Paul was laden with a message that would seem homely and jejune beside a fine-spun rhetoric. Come from Athens, where he had partly failed, to make at Corinth a fresh attempt to confront the grandeur of Greek philosophy with the simplicity of the gospel, was enough to make him timid. Of this contrast he was daily conscious, and the weakness here described was ethical, not physical. He was naturally anxious, lest in poising the plain argument of the Cross against the colossal fabric of a seated philosophy, he might fail: was a David armed with such a pebble to prevail against a Goliath in such a panoply? But in his "fear and tremblingthe apostle was encouraged by a vision of God's presence and his own duty (Acts 18:9). (Canon Evans.) Parallel Verses KJV: And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.WEB: I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. |
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