NT Text: 2 Corinthians 4:13
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy
Significance: Paul quotes Psalm 116:10 verbatim from the LXX (Ps 115:1), where the psalmist testified of faith amid life-threatening affliction. Paul shares the psalmist's suffering-to-testimony pattern - both believed despite distress and therefore spoke boldly. However, Paul's faith has christological content: he believes in the resurrected Jesus (4:14). This shows covenant continuity - Paul stands in the faith tradition of his ancestors while adding the new element of belief in God's Son. The quotation demonstrates OT authority for Paul's Gentile audience and models how affliction doesn't silence witness but rather proves the Spirit's power in weakness.
Prosopological Shift: Speaker extends — the psalmist's first-person confession "I believed, and so I spoke" becomes the shared voice of apostolic ministers who speak by "the same spirit of faith." The shift is more subtle: not a change in referent, but an extension of the psalmist's voice into the apostolic present, making psalmist and apostle co-speakers across redemptive history.