What does 2 Corinthians 10:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, aree not wise."
2 CORINTHIANS 10:12-13 ouv sunia/sin) h`mei/j de, {B} The absence of ouv sunia/sin) h`mei/j de, in several witnesses of the Western text (D* G itd, g, ar Ambrosiaster Vigilius Sedulius Scotus) is dou...
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:12. _WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES_, c.] As if he had said: I dare neither associate with, nor compare myself to, those who are full of self-commendation. Some think this to be an...
FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER - We admit that we are not bold enough for that. They had accused him of a lack of boldness and energy when present with them, 2Co 10:1, 2 Corinthians 10:1...
III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13 1. The Vindication of His Authority CHAPTER 10 The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had received from the Lord....
PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
DARE. Same as "be bold", 2 Corinthians 10:2. MAKE... OF THE NUMBER. Greek. _enkrino,_ to judge or reckon among. Only here. App-122. COMPARE. Greek. _sonkrino._ App-122. SOME. Greek. _tines._ App-12...
Caution to those who judge by outward appearance 7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am present_in 2 Corinthia...
12. DFG 109, dfg omit ΟΥ̓ ΣΥΝΙΑ͂ΣΙΝ together with ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ ΔΈ in 2 Corinthians 10:13. 12. ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ΤΟΛΜΩ͂ΜΕΝ ἘΝΚΡΙ͂ΝΑΙ Ἢ ΣΥΝΚΡΙ͂ΝΑΙ ἙΑΥΤΟΎΣ. _For we_ ARE NOT BOLD (2 Corinthians 10:2) TO PAIR _or compare...
_ SEEKING THE GLORY OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12-14:_ Those that criticized Paul were inclined to think highly of themselves and praise themselves. He said, "But when they measure themselves by one anot...
ΤΟΛΜΏΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΤΟΛΜΆΩ (G5111) быть смелым, осмеливаться. (О хвале Павла во 2 Кор. 10-12 с точки зрения риторики _см._ Christopher Forbes, "Comparison, Self-Praise and Irony: Paul's Boa...
BUT THEY, MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES,— Dr. Whitby would render it _measuring themselves by one another;_ as if they compared themselves with their false apostles, and grew proud in the degree...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ A Defense Of His Boasting About His Authority Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:7-12. Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ...
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not w...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
10:12 intelligent. (b-28) 'Wise' is not the sense here, at least it seems to give the sense of 'not being wise in doing so,' which is not the force of the Greek expression. The force is 'do not perce...
(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2 Corinth...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER. — The last five words give the meaning of one Greek verb (_enkrînai =_ to insert), the sound of which seems immediately to suggest the cognate verb (_synkrîna...
CHAPTER 23 COMPARISONS. 2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V) THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion of αυτος...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 2 Corinthians 10:8 There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God. Weak...
Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
VERSE 12 Paul did not see himself as an equal to his opponents in their ability to exaggerate their own power and authority. Apparently they had accused him of commending himself (2 Corinthians 3:1; 2...
(5) For we (h) dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by (i) themselves, and (k) comparing themselves among themse...
The following verses to the end of the chapter, are equally obscure, both in the Greek and Latin text. --- We dare not rank or compare ourselves, &c. He seems to write this ironically, by way of mocki...
(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For t...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
12._For we dare not. _He says this by way of _irony, _for afterwards he does not merely compare himself boldly with them, but, deriding their vanity, he leaves them far behind him. Now by this _irony...
The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship, which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on h...
FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER,.... Some understand this as spoken ironically, as if the apostle jeeringly should say, he would not pretend to join, or put himself upon a level, who was...
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wi...
_Let such a one_, whoever he be, _think this_ Reckon upon this as a certain fact; _that such as we are in word by letters_ However weighty and powerful they may be; _when we are absent, such_ The same...
Men who think highly of themselves, and boast of their talents, excellence, and usefulness-who compare themselves not with the law of God, but with their own defective ideas of the characters of their...
FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER, OR COMPARE OURSELVES WITH SOME THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES; BUT THEY, MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES AND COMPARING THEMSELVES AMONG THEMSELVES, ARE NOT WI...
Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
ARE NOT WISE: Or, understand it not...
12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his m...
This whole verse is a reflection upon the false teachers of the church of Corinth, from whose manners Paul purgeth himself. I (saith he) durst not, as some others, magnify myself, nor compare myself w...
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III ne "quis, cure" recte "stare videatur,"[6]...
2 Corinthians 10:12 For G1063 dare G5111 (G5719) not G3756 ourselves G1469 (G5658) or G2228 compare G4793 ourselves G1438 with G4793 (G5658) those G5100 commend G4921 (G5723) themselves G1438 But G235...
‘For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are...
2 Corinthians 10:12. FOR WE ARE NOT BOLD TO NUMBER OR COMPARE OURSELVES WITH CERTAIN OF THEM THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES: BUT t HEY THEMSELVES MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES, AND COMPARING THEMSELVES...
TO NUMBER OR COMPARE OURSELVES (ενκρινα η συνκρινα). Paronomasia here, play on the two words. Ενκρινα is first aorist active infinitive of old verb, but here only in N.T., to judge among, to judge...
CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to Corinthians as brethren in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own in...
2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of Jer...
OF COURSE. Paul speaks in irony. It was confusing to the Corinthians that the false teachers and Paul each used different standards to measure by. Paul now examines this fact. HOW STUPID THEY ARE! "Th...
A FALSE AND A TRUE MEASURE But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. 2 Corinthians 10:12. I wonder how many of yo...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Paul now turns to reestablishing his authority in Corinth by (1) defining the proper standard for apostolic authority and (2) demonstrating that his ministry...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and despicable, and accused him...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this, and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
EXPOSITION With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse 1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am] bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1): This is one of the charges that...
2 Corinthians 3:1; 2 Corinthians 5:12; Job 12:2; Luke 18:11; Proverbs 25:27; Proverbs 26:12; Proverbs 27:2; Romans 15:18...
Make ourselves of the number [ε γ κ ρ ι ν α ι ε α υ τ ο υ ς]. Rev., better, to number ourselves. Lit., to judge ourselves to be among : to place in the same category with....
For we presume not — A strong irony. To equal ourselves — As partners of the same office. Or to compare ourselves — As partakers of the same labour. They among themselves limiting themselves — Choosin...
Observe here, 1. St. Paul's just charge, which he brings in against the false apostles, for their pride and vanity, in commending themselves: and comparing themselves with such as were like themselves...