2 Corinthians 1:15

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before that ye might have a second benefit; And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; IN THIS CONFIDENCE - of my character for sincerity being "acknowledged" by you (2 Corinthians 1:12). WAS MINDED - I was intending. BEFORE - "to come unto you before" visiting Macedonia (where he now was). Compare note, ; also 4:18; all which imply that the insinuation of some at Corinth, that he would not come at all, rested on his having thus disappointed them. His change of intention, and ultimate resolution of going through Macedonia first, took place before his sending Ti...

15._In this confidence. _After having given them reason to expect that he would come, he had subsequently changed his intention. This was made an occasion of calumny against him, as appears from the excuse that he brings forward. When he says that it was from relying on_this confidence _that he formed the purpose of coming to them, he indirectly throws the blame upon the Corinthians, inasmuch as they had, by their ingratitude, hindered, to some extent, his coming to them, by depriving him of _that confidence. _ _That ye might have a second benefit _The first benefit had been this — that he had devoted himself for the entire period of _a year and six months _(Acts 18:11) to the work of gaining them to the Lord; the _second _was their being confirmed, by means of his coming to them, in the faith which they had once received, and being stirred up by his sa

15-24 The apostle clears himself from the charge of levity and inconstancy, in not coming to Corinth. Good men should be careful to keep the reputation of sincerity and constancy; they should not resolve, but on careful thought; and they will not change unless for weighty reasons. Nothing can render God's promises more certain: his giving them through Christ, assures us they are his promises; as the wonders God wrought in the life, resurrection, and ascension of his Son, confirm faith. The Holy Spirit makes Christians firm in the faith of the gospel: the quickening of the Spirit is an earnest of everlasting life; and the comforts of the Spirit are an earnest of everlasting joy. The apostle desired to spare the blame he feared would be unavoidable, if he had gone to Corinth before he learned what effect his former letter produced. Our strength and ability are owing to faith; and our comf...

Verse 15. _AND IN THIS CONFIDENCE_] Under the conviction or persuasion that this is the case; that ye exult in us, as we do in you; _I WAS MINDED_] I had purposed _to come to you before_, as he had intimated, 1 Corinthians 16:5; for he had intended to call on them in his way from Macedonia, but this purpose he did not fulfil; and he gives the reason, 2 Corinthians 1:23. _A SECOND BENEFIT_] He had been with them _once_, and they had received an especial blessing in having the _seed_ of life _sown_ among them by the preaching of the Gospel; and he had purposed to visit them again that they might have a _second_ blessing, in having that seed _watered_. Instead of χαριν, _grace_ or ben

AND IN HIS CONFIDENCE - In this confidence of my integrity, and that you had this favorable opinion of me, and appreciated the principles of my conduct. I did not doubt that you would receive me kindly, and would give me again the tokens of your affection and regard. In this Paul shows that however some of them might regard him, yet that he had no doubt that the majority of the church there would receive him kindly. I WAS MINDED - I willed (ἐβουλόμην eboulomēn); it was my intention. TO COME UNTO YOU BEFORE - Tyndale renders this: “the other time.” Paul refers doubtless to the time when he wrote his former Epistle, and when it was his serious purpose, as it was his earnest wish, to visit them again; see 1 Corinth

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 ...

AND IN THIS CONFIDENCE I WAS MINDED,.... Being fully persuaded of your affection for me, as having been instrumental in the conversion of many of you, and of your esteem of me as a faithful and upright minister of the word, and of your being my rejoicing in the day of Christ, I was desirous, and had determined, and so promised, TO COME TO YOU BEFORE; when I sent my first epistle to you, or before now, or before I went into Macedonia; and what I now say was the sincere intention of my mind; I thought really to have done what I had such an inclination to: and my view in it was, THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE A SECOND BENEFIT; the meaning of which according to some is, first by his letter to them, and then by his presence with them; or as others, one benefit when he should pass by them to Macedonia, and a second, when he should return to them from thence, according to the following verse; or rather,...

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

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2. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE AND EXPLANATIONS. CHAPTER 1:8-24 _ 1. His Experience. (2 Corinthians 1:8)_ 2. His Explanations. (2 Corinthians 1:15) The Apostle speaks, first of all, of the trouble he had when he was pressed out of measure (or “weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power”), in so much that he despaired of his life. What experience did he mean? The question cannot be positively answered. It may have been the trouble in Ephesus (Acts 19:1) to which he refers in 1 Corinthians 15:32, “If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts in Ephesus .” Others think that it was