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In researching Paul’s longest and best-known letters—Romans and 1 Corinthians—the editor of The Lutheran Commentary, Henry Eyster Jacobs, starts with the history of the early church and the writings of the early church fathers. This well-referenced commentary includes references to the impressive commentaries of Poole, Lange, Chrysostom, Stuart, Schaff, and many others.

is fruitful of comfort for the Church. The patient enduring of the same sufferings. Comfort, in the present, enables the Church to look forward to the salvation which is to come. In her sufferings the same comfort is active, working in the patient endurance of all that must be borne for Christ’s sake, and enabling her to be faithful to the end. Ver. 7. Hope … stedfast. The ground of this hope is the assurance of comfort. This hope is sure, firm, which cannot be said of every hope. The reality of
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