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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

2 Corinthians 4:14

2 Corinthians 4:14. knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus [1] shall raise up us also with Jesus, [2] and shall present us with you the parent in the faith with his spiritual children (see Ephesians 5:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:20; Jude 1:24).

[1] Here the received reading is dearly right; that of Lachmann and Tregelles, followed by Stanley and Green, being supported only by one ancient MS.

[2] Not “by Jesus,” as in the received text and Authorised Version on next to no evidence

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