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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

affliction is shortlived, and permanence is on the other side.* Still more are we accustomed to attribute weight to affliction rather than to glory. The Apostle reverses that also. The simple and common idea of scales is in his mind; weighed against one another, the glory goes down and the affliction kicks the beam. All the daily wear and tear of life, with its losses, sicknesses, and sufferings, are as nothing, and the result of the comparison would be much the same if that scale were empty. However
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