2 Coríntios 4

2 Coríntios 4:13-15

Trapp: Though I have had my offs and my ons, though I have passed through several frames of heart and tempers of soul in my trials, yet I believed still, I never let go my hold, my grip of God, in my perturbation. Joseph Caryl: The tongue should always be the heart's interpreter, and the heart should always be the tongue's suggester; what is spoken with the tongue should be first stamped upon the heart and wrought off from it. Thus it should be in all our communications and exhortations, especially when we speak or exhort about the things of God, and dispense the mysteries of heaven. David spoke from his heart when he spoke from his faith. I believed, therefore have I spoken. Believing is an act of the heart, "with the heart man believe" (Ro 10:10-+); so that to say, "I believed, therefore have I spoken," is as if he had said, I would never have spoken these things, if my heart had not been clear and upright in them. The apostle Paul takes up that very protestation from David (2Corinthians 4:13): "According as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak"; that is, we move others to believe nothing but what we believe, and are fully assured of ourselves. (Psalm 116:10 - Treasury of David) John