2 Corinthians 1 · a question people ask
"our affliction which happened to us in Asia" (1:8). What was it?
The chapter doesn't say what it was. It says only what its verses say: "we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life" (1:8), "we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves" (1:9), and God "delivered us out of so great a death" (1:10). These notes say no more of it, set no other passage beside it, and apply it to no one's suffering today.
The verses
“For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,”