2 Corinthians 4:8

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Ver. 8. We are troubled on every side] This is the world's wages to God's ministers. Veritas odium parit. Opposition is Evangelii genius, said Calvin. Truth goes ever with a scratched face.

We are perplexed] Pray for me, I say, pray for me, saith Latimer; for I am sometimes so fearful, that I could creep into a mouse hole; sometimes God doth visit me again with comfort, &c. There is an elegance here in the original that cannot well be rendered (απορουμενοι αλλ ουκ ' εξαπορουμενοι. Tertullian hammers at it in his Indigemus, sed non perindigemus. Beza hath it Haesitamus at non prorsus haeremus. Mr Dike "staggering," but not wholly sticking.