2 Corinthians 1:10

So great a death. Or, “so terrible a death.” The word “deliver,” here used three times, is the keynote of this verse. Deliverance had come to have real meaning to Paul (see ch. 11:23-28), and this accounts for his emphasis on it.

He will yet deliver. Perhaps the peril to which Paul alludes in v. 8 was not yet altogether abated. Perhaps Paul realized that in the gospel ministry one peril would certainly be followed by another. Past deliverance gave “trust” and confidence to expect future deliverance. The Christian’s sense of security grows out of confidence in the promises of God and personal experiences in which those promises have been realized.