Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 4:16

Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 4:16 - 4:16

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Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Corinthians 4:16 - 4:16

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4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:8 - 4:8
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4:10 - 4:10
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4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:15 - 4:15
4:16 - 4:16
4:17 - 4:17
4:18 - 4:18

Wherefore we faint not (dio ouk egkakoumen). Repeats from 2Co 4:1.

Our outward man (ho exō hēmōn anthrōpos), our inward man (ho esō hēmōn). In Rom 7:22; Col 3:9; Eph 4:22., we have the inward man and the outward for the higher and the lower natures (the spirit and the flesh). “Here the decay (diaphtheiretai) of the bodily organism is set over against the growth in grace (anakainoutai, is refreshed) of the man himself” (Bernard). Plato (Republ. ix, p. 589) has ho entos anthrōpos. Cf. “the hidden man of the heart” (1Pe 3:4).

Day by day (hēmerāi kai hēmerāi). This precise idiom is not in lxx nor rest of N.T. It may be colloquial use of locative in repetition.