<p>1:10 <i>Who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver. On whom we have set our hope, that He will also still deliver us- </i>The &quot;great death&quot; from which Paul was delivered refers to the death sentence received in Asia, apparently to fight to the death with wild animals in the arena, which sentence Paul was miraculously delivered from (see on 1 Cor. 15:32). He uses the same Greek word for &quot;deliver&quot; in reminiscing how there &quot;I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion&quot; (2 Tim. 4:17). &quot;And will deliver&quot; would then refer to Paul's hope of resurrection. For as noted on :9, he is reasoning that no matter how dramatic are our brushes with death in this life, we all have the sentence of death within us. Paul hopes that the Lord will continue to 'deliver him from evil' in this life (s.w. Mt. 6:13). But his greater hope is for the deliverance which will come at the resurrection, when we shall be delivered &quot;from the body of this death&quot; (Rom. 7:24).</p>