Enduring Troubles

Ἐν παντὶ θλιβόμενοι, ἀλλ' οὐ στενοχωρούμενοι.  Ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ πικρότητι τῶν περιεστηκόντων ἀπηυδήσαμεν ἂν καὶ ἀπωλόμεθα· ὅσον δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ παρακαλοῦντι Θεῷ, πάντα ἡμῖν πρὸς σωτηρίαν εὐμαρῆ. Κᾶν ἐν παντὶ οὖν πράγματι θλιβώμεθα, γενναιάζοντες οὐ στενοχωρούμεθα· κἂν ὡς ἀπόρους ἡμᾶς τινες ὑπολαμβάνωσι, διώκοντες καὶ ἀνατρέποντες, ἀλλ' οὖν ἡμευῖς ἐν ἄπασιν εὐποροῦντες οὐκ εξαπορούμεθα, οὐκ ἀπολλύμεθα, οὐ καταβαλλόμεθα. Ἀνατρεπόντων γὰρ τῶν πονηρῶν, στήκομεν ἁκλόνητοι· διωκόμενοι γενναιάζομεν, πορίμων ἡμῖν πάντων ὄντων πρὸς σωτηρίαν. Ἰστέον, ὅτι τὸ στενοχωρεῖσθαι ὁτε μὲν ταυτόν ἐστι θλίβεσθαι, ὁτὲ δὲ ἕτερον. Ὅταν γὰρ ἀμφότερα λέγηται, δηλοῖ τὸ μὲν θλίβεσθαι τὴν ἔξωθεν περίστασιν· τὸ στενοχωρεῖσθαι, τὸ ὀκλάζειν τῇ προαιρέσει καὶ λογισμῳ. Ὅταν δὲ μὴ ἀμφότερα λαμβάνηται, ἐκ παραλλήλου δηλοῦσι τὸ αὐτό. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Την Δευτεραν Ἐπιστολήν Παυλου Αποσλολου Προς Κορινθίους

In every tribulation, but we do not anguish. 1 That is, in bitter circumstances we do not in despair wish to perish, but, on account of the consolation of God, everything tends to salvation for us. Even if, then, in everything we are troubled, yet resisting we do not anguish. And when as if destitute of all resource they think us, and they persecute and threaten us, we however in everything rich and not at a loss, are not overrun, nor are we cast down. For while the wicked try to overturn us, we stand unmoved, bravely resisting our persecutors, all we have supporting us to salvation. And let it be known that the word anguish has a different meaning to tribulation. When both words are placed together, tribulation signifies external aggression whereas anguish concerns hesitation in the deliberations of the mind. But when they are not used together they signify similar things. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on Second Corinthians, Fragment 1 2 Cor 4. 8