1 Corinthians 15:31

I protest, etc. I protest is not expressed, but merely implied, in the particle of adjuration, nh by. The order of the Greek is noteworthy. I die daily, by your rejoicing, etc.

Your rejoicing [τ η ν υ μ ε τ ε ρ α ν κ α υ χ η σ ι ν]. Rev., better, that glorying in you which I have. Paul would say : "You Corinthian Christians are the fruit of my apostolic labor which has been at a daily risk to life; and as truly as I can point to you as such fruit, so truly can I say, 'I die daily." ' I die daily. I am in constant peril of my life. Compare 2 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 11:23; Romans 8:36. So Clytaemnestra : "I have no rest by night, nor can I snatch from the day a sweet moment of repose to enfold me; but Time, ever standing over me, was as a jailer who conducted me to death" (Sophocles, "Electra," 780, 781). And Philo : "And each day, nay, each hour, I die beforehand, enduring many deaths instead of one, the last."