2Cor 4:17 | JFB | STEP | 17. which is but for a moment —"Our PRESENT light (burden of) affliction" (so the Greek; compare ), [ALFORD ]. Compare " now for a season . . . in heaviness" ( ). The contrast, however, between this and the "ETERNAL weight of glory" requires, I think, the translation, "Which is but for the present passing moment. " So WAHL . "The lightness of affliction" (he does not express "burden" after "light"; the Greek is "the light of affliction") contrasts beautifully with the " weight of the glory." worketh —rather, "worketh out." a far more exceeding and —rather, "in a surpassing and still more surpassing manner" [ALFORD ]; "more and more exceedingly" [ELLICOTT , TRENCH , and others]. Greek, "in excess and to excess." The glory exceeds beyond all measure the affliction.

2 Corinthians 4:17

17. which is but for a moment—"Our PRESENT light (burden of) affliction" (so the Greek; compare Mt 11:30), [ALFORD]. Compare "now for a season . . . in heaviness" (1Pe 1:6). The contrast, however, between this and the "ETERNAL weight of glory" requires, I think, the translation, "Which is but for the present passing moment." So WAHL. "The lightness of affliction" (he does not express "burden" after "light"; the Greek is "the light of affliction") contrasts beautifully with the "weight of the glory."

worketh—rather, "worketh out."

a far more exceeding and —rather, "in a surpassing and still more surpassing manner" [ALFORD]; "more and more exceedingly" [ELLICOTT, TRENCH, and others]. Greek, "in excess and to excess." The glory exceeds beyond all measure the affliction.