2 Corinthians 1:14

As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. IN PART. In contrast to "even to the end;" the testimony of his life was not yet completed (Theophylact). Rather, "in part" - i:e., some of you, not all (Grotius). So in ; . The majority at Corinth had willingly complied with Paul's directions in the first letter; but some were still refractory. Hence, arises the difference of tone in different parts of this letter. (See 'Introduction.') THAT - `because' (Olshausen). YOUR REJOICING - your subject of glorying. ARE - not merely shall be, implies the present recognition of one another as a subject of mutual glorying: about to be real...

14._For we are your glorying. _We have briefly adverted to the manner in which it is allowable for saints to glory in God’s benefits — when they repose themselves in God alone, and have no other object of aim. Thus it was a ground of pious glorying on the part of Paul, that he had, by his ministry, brought the Corinthians under obedience to Christ; and of the Corinthians, on the other hand, that they had been trained up so faithfully and so virtuously by such an Apostle — a privilege that had not been allotted to all. This way of glorying in men does not stand in the way of our glorying in God alone. Now he instructs the Corinthians, that it is of the greatest importance for themselves that they should acknowledge him to be a faithful, and not a merely pretended, servant of Christ; because, in the event of their withdrawing from him, they would deprive themselves of the highest glory. In...

12-14 Though, as a sinner, the apostle could only rejoice and glory in Christ Jesus, yet, as a believer, he might rejoice and glory in being really what he professed. Conscience witnesses concerning the steady course and tenor of the life. Thereby we may judge ourselves, and not by this or by that single act. Our conversation will be well ordered, when we live and act under such a gracious principle in the heart. Having this, we may leave our characters in the Lord's hands, but using proper means to clear them, when the credit of the gospel, or our usefulness, calls for it....

Verse 14. _HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED US IN PART_] Απο μερους may signify here not _in part_, but _some of you_; and it is evident, from the distracted state of the Corinthians, and the opposition raised there against the apostle, that it was only _a part of them_ that did acknowledge him, and receive and profit by his epistles and advice. _WE ARE YOUR REJOICING_, c.] You boast of _us_ as the ministers of Christ through whom ye have believed as we boast of _you_ as genuine converts to the Christian faith, and worthy members of the Church of God....

AS ALSO YE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED US - You have had occasion to admit my singleness of aim, and purity of intention and of life by your former acquaintance with me; and you have cheerfully done it. “In part” (ἀπὸ μέρους apo merous). Tyndale renders this: “as ye have found us partly.” The sense seems to be, “as part of you acknowledge;” meaning that a portion of the church was ready to concede to him the praise of consistency and uprightness, though there was a faction, or a part that denied it. THAT WE ARE YOUR REJOICING - That we are your joy, and your boasting. That is, you admit me to be an apostle. You regard me as your teacher, and guide. You recognize my authority, and acknowledge the benefits which you have received through me. EVEN AS YE ALSO ARE OURS - Or, as you will be our rejoicing in the day whe

EXPOSITION Address and greeting (2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:2). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympathetically shared (2 Corinthians 1:3). He has earned a right to their sympathy by his sincerity (2 Corinthians 1:12). His change of purpose with respect to a visit to Corinth, with digression on the unchangeableness of the gospel (2 Corinthians 1:15). Explanation of his Reasons ...

AS ALSO YOU HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED US IN PART,.... This may refer either to the thing known and acknowledged, namely, the integrity of the apostle's conversation, and others; which though they did not know thoroughly and perfectly, yet did in part, and that so far as that they might acquit them from the charge brought against them; or to the persons who knew this, as that there were some in the church of Corinth, a part of them, though not all, who knew and had acknowledged them to be upright and sincere ministers of the word, and had declared that they had reason to rejoice and bless God that ever they heard them: and THAT WE ARE YOUR REJOICING: or "glorying in", or "unto the day of the Lord Jesus": when he shall come to judge the world in righteousness, then they should before him, angels and men, rejoice and glory in this, that they had been blessed with such sincere and faithful minister...

2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleship altogether. 2 Corinthians 1:1. _And Timothy our brother,_ Whom, in all humility, he associates with himself, although he was a younger man, of far less consequence; but Paul loved him very much, and therefore he put his name at the beginning of this Epistle side by side with his own: «and Timothy our brother,» 2 Corinthians 1:1. Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: grace be to you and peace

DAY OF (_ See Scofield) - (1 Corinthians 1:8). _...

2 CORINTHIANS 1:14 tou/ kuri,ou @h`mw/n# {C} Although usually the longer readings that involve the sacred names are suspect as scribal expansions, in the present case a majority of the Committee was of the opinion that the expression, “our Lord Jesus,” not being a customary liturgical formula, is probably to be attributed to Paul rather than to a copyist. Owing, however, to the balance in weight of the external evidence for and against the presence of h`mw/n, it was decided to enclose the pronoun within square brackets....